Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Published 2013 · 171,600 words · about 13 hours at an average pace
How hard is Night Film to read?
Night Film scores 58 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: 48 out of 100
- Plain vocabulary with film-critical terms.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Clear, propulsive sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete investigation with an occult premise.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with embedded documents and images.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- An investigator whose judgement steadily degrades.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The films carry the meaning.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Distance between his certainty and the evidence.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- The supernatural question is left open.
- Structural complexity: 68 out of 100
- Narrative broken by web pages, photographs and files.
How Night Film is regarded
Night Film holds a literary regard score of 34 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.