Shutter by Ramona Emerson
Published 2022 · 313 pages · 69,884 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Shutter to read?
Shutter scores 45 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: 40 out of 100
- Contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Clear, varied sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Photography, memory, and truth.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Photography world detail.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The photograph as truth and lie.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Critical observation.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Truth remains contested.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
How Shutter is regarded
Shutter holds a literary regard score of 52 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.