My Lives: A Memoir by Edmund White
Published 2007 · 105,600 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is My Lives: A Memoir to read?
My Lives: A Memoir scores 47 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 60 out of 100
- Rich, candid vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Long, elegant sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete recollection with light reflection.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Moderate; organised by theme rather than year.
How My Lives: A Memoir is regarded
My Lives: A Memoir holds a literary regard score of 50 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.