Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Published 2013 · 73,425 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Nevada to read?
Nevada 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: 42 out of 100
- Plain, blunt, colloquial.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Short sentences in a deadpan register.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete, with a running argument about self-knowledge.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Two protagonists, both lying to themselves in different ways.
- Symbolic density: 42 out of 100
- Little conventional symbolism.
- Ironic distance: 68 out of 100
- The deadpan is doing constant work against the feeling underneath.
- Resolution withholding: 72 out of 100
- It ends mid-gesture, refusing the redemption arc on purpose.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Two halves that do not resolve into one.
How Nevada is regarded
Nevada holds a literary regard score of 57 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.