How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell

Published 2017 · 104,225 words · about 6 hours at an average pace

How hard is How to Murder Your Life to read?

How to Murder Your Life scores 37 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: 42 out of 100
Magazine slang and drug names.
Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
Short, jittery sentences.
Abstraction: 38 out of 100
Concrete throughout.
Information density: 48 out of 100
Episodic and fast.

How How to Murder Your Life is regarded

How to Murder Your Life holds a literary regard score of 30 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.

About the author

Cat Marnell