Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
Published 2023 · 103,675 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Really Good, Actually to read?
Really Good, Actually 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: 42 out of 100
- Plain contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Short, comic sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete divorce, lightly reflective.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- A narrator whose comedy is a defence.
- Symbolic density: 38 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 62 out of 100
- The jokes work against what she will not say.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- It resolves gently.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Linear with lists and asides.
How Really Good, Actually is regarded
Really Good, Actually 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.