The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy
Published 1971 · 254 pages · 63,500 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is The Big Chapel to read?
The Big Chapel scores 53 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
- Irish vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Kilroy's prose.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Religion, community.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Irish parish.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- Third person.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Chapel, faith.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Community observation.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- Conflict resolved.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Community narrative.
How The Big Chapel is regarded
The Big Chapel holds a literary regard score of 55 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.