Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Published 2005 · 104,500 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is Lunar Park to read?
Lunar Park scores 63 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 vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Concrete suburbia sliding into the supernatural.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 78 out of 100
- A narrator named Bret Easton Ellis who lies about everything, including the book.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The house and the doll do sustained work.
- Ironic distance: 78 out of 100
- The whole novel is a joke at its author's expense.
- Resolution withholding: 65 out of 100
- What was real is deliberately never settled.
- Structural complexity: 68 out of 100
- Autofiction, ghost story and parody at once.
How Lunar Park is regarded
Lunar Park holds a literary regard score of 48 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.