Bossypants by Tina Fey
Published 2011 · 272 pages · 55,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Arts & Culture, Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Satire & Humor
How hard is Bossypants to read?
Bossypants scores 14 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 18 out of 100
- Conversational vocabulary. Comedy-industry terms in context.
- Sentence structure: 18 out of 100
- Abstraction: 15 out of 100
- Concrete anecdotes and observations throughout.
- Information density: 30 out of 100
- Light and fast. Comedy pacing drives the structure.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Loosely chronological essay collection.
- Symbolic density: 80 out of 100
- Minimal symbolism. Direct comic observation.
- Ironic distance: 22 out of 100
- Constant self-mockery that doubles as sharp social commentary.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Each essay delivers its payoff.
- Structural complexity: 15 out of 100
- Loosely connected essays. Light, accessible structure.
How Bossypants is regarded
Bossypants holds a literary regard score of 39 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.