The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
Published 2022 · 322 pages · 80,500 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Town of Babylon to read?
The Town of Babylon scores 42 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 38 out of 100
- Contemporary suburban vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Clear, direct sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Adolescence and community.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Long Island detail.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Young narrator's limited view.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Babylon, home carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Coming-of-age perspective.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Youth continues.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Traditional coming-of-age.
How The Town of Babylon is regarded
The Town of Babylon holds a literary regard score of 48 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.