The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Published 2022 · 352 pages · 115,000 words · about 10 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Candy House to read?
The Candy House scores 60 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 tech vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Egan's varied styles.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Memory, technology, self.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Near-future tech.
- Narrative indirection: 65 out of 100
- Multiple formats.
- Symbolic density: 60 out of 100
- Candy house, memory.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Tech satire.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Open connections.
- Structural complexity: 68 out of 100
- Linked stories, formats.
How The Candy House is regarded
The Candy House holds a literary regard score of 45 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.