Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
Published 2017 · 88,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Made for Love to read?
Made for Love scores 54 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 contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, comic sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete, with a satirical premise.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- Several viewpoints, all comically self-deceived.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- The surveillance and the dolphin carry the theme.
- Ironic distance: 72 out of 100
- Sustained satire throughout.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- Threads resolve absurdly.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Alternating strands.
How Made for Love is regarded
Made for Love holds a literary regard score of 32 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.