The Caprices by Sabina Murray
Published 2003 · 210 pages · 52,500 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Short Fiction, War Fiction
How hard is The Caprices to read?
The Caprices scores 54 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
- WWII Pacific vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Tuck's clear prose.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- War, survival.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Philippines, WWII.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Caprices, fate.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- War observation.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Stories vary.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Story collection.
How The Caprices is regarded
The Caprices holds a literary regard score of 56 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.