Down the Drain by Julia Fox
Published 2023 · 92,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Down the Drain to read?
Down the Drain scores 31 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: 35 out of 100
- Blunt, colloquial vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 35 out of 100
- Short, flat sentences.
- Abstraction: 32 out of 100
- Entirely concrete.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Episodic and fast.
How Down the Drain is regarded
Down the Drain 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.