I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Published 2006 · 35,000 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism, Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Satire & Humor
How hard is I Feel Bad About My Neck to read?
I Feel Bad About My Neck scores 19 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 18 out of 100
- Everyday vocabulary. Elegant simplicity.
- Sentence structure: 20 out of 100
- Abstraction: 15 out of 100
- Concrete observations about daily life and aging.
- Information density: 30 out of 100
- Light, quick essays. Every word earns its place.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Each essay is direct and self-contained.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- The neck as metonym for aging's indignities.
- Ironic distance: 22 out of 100
- Wry self-awareness about vanity and its discontents.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Each essay delivers a clean landing.
- Structural complexity: 12 out of 100
- Short independent essays. Very accessible.
How I Feel Bad About My Neck is regarded
I Feel Bad About My Neck holds a literary regard score of 42 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.