For Real by Alexis Hall
Published 2015 · 110,275 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is For Real to read?
For Real scores 37 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
- Plain, with some class-marked dialect.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
- Two narrators with different degrees of honesty.
- Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Comic irony from the age gap.
- Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, linear.
How For Real is regarded
For Real holds a literary regard score of 32 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.