Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz
Published 1977 · 44,550 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Slow Days, Fast Company to read?
Slow Days, Fast Company scores 43 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: 48 out of 100
- Casual, glittering, deliberately offhand.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Loose, chatty sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete Los Angeles, lightly reflective.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light; the essays drift by design.
How Slow Days, Fast Company is regarded
Slow Days, Fast Company holds a literary regard score of 53 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.