Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana
Published 2018 · 55,825 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Horse Crazy to read?
Horse Crazy scores 60 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: 55 out of 100
- Art-world vocabulary with downtown slang.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Long, acid sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Obsession examined at close analytical range.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- A narrator who analyses himself relentlessly and understands himself not at all.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 75 out of 100
- Corrosive irony throughout, mostly self-directed.
- Resolution withholding: 65 out of 100
- The obsession dissolves rather than resolves.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Loose, digressive, doubling back.
How Horse Crazy is regarded
Horse Crazy holds a literary regard score of 46 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.