Famous People I Have Known by Ed McClanahan
Published 1985 · 53,625 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Famous People I Have Known to read?
Famous People I Have Known scores 38 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: 45 out of 100
- Kentucky vernacular, rich but not obscure.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Loose, talkative sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete recollection.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Episodic.
How Famous People I Have Known is regarded
Famous People I Have Known holds a literary regard score of 31 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.