The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
Published 2019 · 99,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Light Brigade to read?
The Light Brigade scores 61 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: 50 out of 100
- Military and technical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Short, hard sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete war carrying a political argument.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Considerable world-building.
- Narrative indirection: 72 out of 100
- A soldier whose deployments arrive out of order, including to her.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The light and the corporations carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Sustained irony about corporate war.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- The chronology resolves late and only partly.
- Structural complexity: 78 out of 100
- Deliberately scrambled sequence.
How The Light Brigade is regarded
The Light Brigade holds a literary regard score of 34 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.