Deep House by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Published 2025 · 101,200 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Deep House to read?
Deep House scores 55 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 60 out of 100
- Rich and deliberately literary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Long associative sentences.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- Marriage law and domestic life handled at a high level of reflection.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Memoir, legal history and criticism interleaved.
How Deep House is regarded
Deep House holds a literary regard score of 45 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.