Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden
Published 1982 · 343 pages · 85,750 words · about 10 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
How hard is Silence Among the Weapons to read?
Silence Among the Weapons scores 57 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: 55 out of 100
- Classical references.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Arden's dramatic verse.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- War, power, complicity.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Ancient world.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Dramatic framework.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Weapons, silence.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Political critique.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Historical frame.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Verse drama.
How Silence Among the Weapons is regarded
Silence Among the Weapons 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.