See You Up There by Pierre Lemaitre
Published 2013 · 576 pages · 144,000 words · about 10 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War Fiction
How hard is See You Up There to read?
See You Up There 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: 42 out of 100
- WWI French vocabulary in translation.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Lemaitre's elaborate, energetic sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Post-war corruption and friendship.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Dense with WWI aftermath detail.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives and time shifts.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The masks, the monument fraud carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Lemaitre's satire is biting.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Tragedy and justice intertwine.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Multiple timelines and perspectives.
How See You Up There is regarded
See You Up There holds a literary regard score of 62 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.