Find Me by André Aciman
Published 2019 · 73,150 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Find Me to read?
Find Me scores 47 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: 55 out of 100
- Educated and allusive.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Long, digressive sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Encounters turned into reflection on time and chance.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Light on incident.
- Narrative indirection: 42 out of 100
- Four narrators, each self-serving in a mild way.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Music and the city recur meaningfully.
- Ironic distance: 38 out of 100
- Light irony at the narrators' expense.
- Resolution withholding: 48 out of 100
- The reunion resolves the plot but not the feeling.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Four movements with different narrators across decades.
How Find Me is regarded
Find Me holds a literary regard score of 37 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.