Florida by Lauren Groff
Published 2018 · 241 pages · 92,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Short Fiction
How hard is Florida to read?
Florida scores 48 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
- Lush, precise vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Long, sinuous sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Nature, motherhood, and threat.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Dense with sensory detail.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Stories reveal through accumulation.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Florida itself is central symbol.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Groff writes with engaged intensity.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Stories end with continued threat.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Story collection with recurring themes.
How Florida is regarded
Florida holds a literary regard score of 59 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.