Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Published 2017 · 30,525 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is Mapping the Interior to read?
Mapping the Interior scores 53 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, with some Blackfeet vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Short, uneasy sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Concrete, with the supernatural left undecided.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Light; it is a novella.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- A boy narrator who may be seeing or imagining; the book never settles it.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The regalia and the crawlspace carry heavy weight.
- Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
- Quiet distance between what the boy reports and what the reader suspects.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- The ending refuses to say what happened.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Linear with a frame.
How Mapping the Interior is regarded
Mapping the Interior holds a literary regard score of 41 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.