The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass by Dannie Abse
Published 2002 · 216 pages · 25,599 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass to read?
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass 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
- Medical terminology.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Accessible prose.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Therapy, ethics, desire.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Therapy sessions.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Dual perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- Doctor-patient.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Ethical distance.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Case concludes.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Alternating chapters.
How The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass is regarded
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass holds a literary regard score of 52 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.