Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Published 2022 · 114,400 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is Disorientation to read?
Disorientation scores 56 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: 48 out of 100
- Plain campus vocabulary with academic jargon mocked.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Short, comic sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete, with an argument about literary authority.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A narrator whose grip on her own crusade slips.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The yellowface poet is the sustained figure.
- Ironic distance: 72 out of 100
- Sustained satire of the academy.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- The scandal resolves; the question does not.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Linear farce.
How Disorientation is regarded
Disorientation holds a literary regard score of 34 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.