Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Published 1983 · 200 pages · 55,000 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Biography, History
How hard is Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson to read?
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson scores 18 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: 28 out of 100
- Plain frontier-biography prose with period trapping terms and Western slang. It sits close to accessible contemporary writing like Beach Read in difficulty.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Short, direct narrative sentences move the action from ambush to ambush. Little nesting or ornament.
- Abstraction: 22 out of 100
- The book stays with concrete events: fights, traps, winter journeys. Reflection on larger meaning is sparse.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- At about 55,000 words, it spreads episodes of Johnson's life lightly with little technical load, like a comfortable adventure read.
How Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson is regarded
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson holds a literary regard score of 27 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.