The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge by Patricia Duncker
Published 2008 · 360 pages · 25,599 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Mystery & Crime
How hard is The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge to read?
The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge 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: 62 out of 100
- Legal, musical terms.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Complex structure.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Art, justice, cult.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Cult, trial.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 60 out of 100
- Music, judgment.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Satirical elements.
- Resolution withholding: 60 out of 100
- Case resolves.
- Structural complexity: 62 out of 100
- Non-linear.
How The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge is regarded
The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge 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.