Running with Scissors
Published 2003 · 336 pages · 92,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Running with Scissors to read?
Running with Scissors scores 34 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.
How Running with Scissors is regarded
Running with Scissors holds a literary regard score of 46 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.