The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
Published 2017 · 352 pages · 88,000 words · about 10 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is The Bedlam Stacks to read?
The Bedlam Stacks scores 55 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
- Victorian, Quechua.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Pulley's clear prose.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Empire, magic, time.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Peru, cinchona.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- First person, mysterious.
- Symbolic density: 60 out of 100
- Stacks, statues, time.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Engaged wonder.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Mystery revealed.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Journey narrative.
How The Bedlam Stacks is regarded
The Bedlam Stacks 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.