Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Published 2001 · 416 pages · 250,000 words · about 17 hours at an average pace · Biography, History, Nonfiction, Politics & Society
How hard is Theodore Rex to read?
Theodore Rex scores 27 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 40 out of 100
- Rich vocabulary. Political and historical terminology.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Abstraction: 30 out of 100
- Political analysis embedded in biographical narrative.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Extremely dense with political, personal, and historical detail.
- Narrative indirection: 12 out of 100
- Mostly chronological with thematic digressions.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- TR as embodiment of American vigor and ambition.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Morris balances admiration with critical distance.
- Resolution withholding: 100 out of 100
- Second volume of trilogy. Some threads continue.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Chronological but dense with political context and subplots.
How Theodore Rex is regarded
Theodore Rex holds a literary regard score of 56 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.