Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Published 2021 · 70,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead to read?

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead scores 50 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: 42 out of 100
Plain contemporary vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
Short, funny sentences.
Abstraction: 48 out of 100
Concrete, with anxiety as the running subject.
Information density: 45 out of 100
Light.
Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
A narrator whose comedy conceals her state.
Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
The church carries modest weight.
Ironic distance: 68 out of 100
The comic voice against the despair is the method.
Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
It resolves gently.
Structural complexity: 42 out of 100
Linear.

How Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is regarded

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead holds a literary regard score of 30 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.

About the author

Emily Austin