Open by Andre Agassi
Published 2009 · 502 pages · 100,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Arts & Culture, Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction
How hard is Open to read?
Open scores 20 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 25 out of 100
- Tennis terminology and everyday vocabulary. Very accessible.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Abstraction: 22 out of 100
- Concrete memoir. Psychological insight embedded in narrative.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Dense with personal detail and match descriptions.
- Narrative indirection: 15 out of 100
- Mostly chronological with some temporal shifts.
- Symbolic density: 18 out of 100
- Tennis as metaphor for fatherly control and individual struggle.
- Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
- Self-aware, often wryly self-deprecating.
- Resolution withholding: 100 out of 100
- Redemption arc provides closure.
- Structural complexity: 22 out of 100
- Chronological with reflective interludes.
How Open is regarded
Open holds a literary regard score of 43 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.