The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
Published 1959 · 547 pages · 189,711 words · about 13 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters to read?
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters 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: 58 out of 100
- 19th century Western.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Adventure prose.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Adventure, coming-of-age.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- Gold Rush journey.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- First person.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- Journey, gold.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Boy narrator.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Journey ends.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Picaresque.
How The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is regarded
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters holds a literary regard score of 60 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.