Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Published 2024 · 79,200 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Little Rot to read?
Little Rot scores 55 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: 48 out of 100
- Plain contemporary Nigerian English.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Short, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Concrete, with a moral argument underneath.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate; a large cast over two days.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Rotating close third persons, each with partial sight.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The city and the church do sustained work.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Sustained irony about respectability.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Several threads are left hanging.
- Structural complexity: 62 out of 100
- Many viewpoints across a compressed timeframe.
How Little Rot is regarded
Little Rot holds a literary regard score of 39 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.