Glitterland by Alexis Hall
Published 2013 · 91,300 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Glitterland to read?
Glitterland scores 43 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: 52 out of 100
- An arch literary register set against heavy Essex dialect.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Elaborate first-person sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete, though depression is handled reflectively.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- A depressed narrator whose judgement is visibly compromised.
- Symbolic density: 38 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Sustained self-mocking irony.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- Resolved, as the genre requires.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How Glitterland is regarded
Glitterland holds a literary regard score of 33 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.