Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Published 1993 · 46,200 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Girl, Interrupted to read?
Girl, Interrupted scores 44 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, apart from psychiatric terms and quoted case notes.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, clipped sentences in brief chapters.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete ward life used to ask what sanity is.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Light per page; the book is short and fragmentary.
How Girl, Interrupted is regarded
Girl, Interrupted holds a literary regard score of 53 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.