Good Material by Dolly Alderton
Published 2023 · 96,800 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Good Material to read?
Good Material scores 42 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: 40 out of 100
- Plain contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Short comic sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Concrete heartbreak, lightly reflective.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- A self-pitying narrator the reader is meant to see past.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- The comedy depends on the gap between his account and the truth.
- Resolution withholding: 40 out of 100
- A late shift in viewpoint answers most of it.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Linear, with one late change of narrator.
How Good Material is regarded
Good Material holds a literary regard score of 37 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.