Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel by Edmund White
Published 2009 · 67,100 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel to read?
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel 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: 62 out of 100
- Rich period vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Long, elegant sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete literary New York with an argument about invention.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Considerable period detail.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A novel inside a novel, both partly invented.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The lost manuscript carries the theme.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Distance between the historical record and White's invention.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- The invented book's ending is left ambiguous.
- Structural complexity: 68 out of 100
- A frame narrative containing a reconstructed lost novel.
How Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel is regarded
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel holds a literary regard score of 44 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.