My Death by Lisa Tuttle
Published 2023 · 39,600 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is My Death to read?
My Death scores 59 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: 52 out of 100
- Plain, precise vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete, with an unresolved supernatural premise.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Light; a novella.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- A narrator who may have foreseen her own death or invented it.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The vision carries the whole meaning.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Distance between her calm and her situation.
- Resolution withholding: 75 out of 100
- The ending explains nothing.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Linear with a frame.
How My Death is regarded
My Death holds a literary regard score of 36 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.