The Wickedest by Caleb Femi
Published 2014 · 85,800 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Wickedest to read?
The Wickedest scores 59 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
- South London vernacular against lyric registers.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Varied lines, some in dialect.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- One night in one venue standing for much more.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Compressed.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- Many voices across a single night.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The dance floor is the sustained figure.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Some distance between the party and what surrounds it.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- The night ends without conclusion.
- Structural complexity: 68 out of 100
- A chorus of voices structured as an evening.
How The Wickedest is regarded
The Wickedest holds a literary regard score of 38 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.