Tenth of December by George Saunders
Published 2013 · 279 pages · 55,545 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Short Fiction
How hard is Tenth of December to read?
Tenth of December scores 56 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: 52 out of 100
- Contemporary vernacular.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Saunders's inventive style.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- Compassion, capitalism.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Various settings.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Interior monologue.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Varied symbols.
- Ironic distance: 60 out of 100
- Satirical sympathy.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Stories end variously.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Story collection.
How Tenth of December is regarded
Tenth of December holds a literary regard score of 75 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.