Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
Published 2003 · 322 pages · 80,500 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Astonishing Splashes of Colour to read?
Astonishing Splashes of Colour scores 48 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 38 out of 100
- Contemporary prose with synesthetic color vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Controlled sentences with psychological precision.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Questions of memory, trauma, and perception.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Dense with psychological content.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Unreliable narrator; reality uncertain.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Colors, babies, memory carry symbolic weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Stace maintains distance from narrator.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Truth about past remains uncertain.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Fragmented memories and unreliable narration.
How Astonishing Splashes of Colour is regarded
Astonishing Splashes of Colour holds a literary regard score of 54 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.