It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
Published 2024 · 37,950 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over to read?
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over scores 62 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: 45 out of 100
- Plain words in an estranged register.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Short fragments.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Grief handled as pure figure.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Very light per page.
- Narrative indirection: 72 out of 100
- A dead narrator with a crow in her chest.
- Symbolic density: 72 out of 100
- Everything is allegory.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Distance between the flat report and the situation.
- Resolution withholding: 78 out of 100
- Nothing is explained or resolved.
- Structural complexity: 62 out of 100
- Short fragments, no chapters.
How It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is regarded
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over holds a literary regard score of 33 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.