Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
Published 1979 · 67,375 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Sex and Rage to read?
Sex and Rage scores 53 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: 50 out of 100
- Glittering, offhand vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Loose, chatty sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete Los Angeles, lightly reflective.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Light; it drifts by design.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- A narrator who never quite admits what she is doing.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 68 out of 100
- Sustained comic distance from herself.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- It ends by drifting out rather than concluding.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Episodic with little plot.
How Sex and Rage is regarded
Sex and Rage holds a literary regard score of 49 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.