Godlike by Richard Hell
Published 2005 · 38,775 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Godlike to read?
Godlike scores 58 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 50 out of 100
- Punk vernacular with literary reach.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Loose, digressive sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete, with an argument about myth-making.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- A narrator writing from an institution, unreliable throughout.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The poet and the myth carry the theme.
- Ironic distance: 62 out of 100
- Sustained distance between the legend and the squalor.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- What was true is left open.
- Structural complexity: 62 out of 100
- Non-chronological recollection.
How Godlike is regarded
Godlike 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.