My Vita, If You Will by Ed McClanahan
Published 1998 · 75,350 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is My Vita, If You Will to read?
My Vita, If You Will scores 38 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: 45 out of 100
- Kentucky vernacular.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Loose, talkative sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete recollection.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Episodic.
How My Vita, If You Will is regarded
My Vita, If You Will holds a literary regard score of 29 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.