Southernmost by Silas House
Published 2018 · 338 pages · 92,950 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Southernmost to read?
Southernmost scores 41 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: 42 out of 100
- Plain Appalachian vernacular.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, clear sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete, with a religious argument running underneath.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 38 out of 100
- Alternating close third persons, father and son.
- Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
- The flood and the church do sustained work.
- Ironic distance: 35 out of 100
- Little irony; the book is sincere.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- The ending resolves most of it.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Two alternating viewpoints, chronological.
How Southernmost is regarded
Southernmost holds a literary regard score of 40 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.