Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Published 2023 · 42,075 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Ripe to read?
Ripe scores 56 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
- Precise, bodily vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short, controlled sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete corporate life with a surreal figure attached.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- A narrator whose despair colours everything.
- Symbolic density: 68 out of 100
- The black hole following her is sustained allegory.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Distance between the corporate language and her state.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- Little is resolved.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Linear with interleaved definitions.
How Ripe is regarded
Ripe holds a literary regard score of 32 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.