These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
Published 2020 · 129,250 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is These Violent Delights to read?
These Violent Delights scores 53 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: 52 out of 100
- Educated, period-inflected vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Long, careful sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete, with philosophical framing.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- A close third person on a boy who cannot see himself.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The photographs and the classics carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Distance between Paul's self-image and his conduct.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- The ending is bleak and complete.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Linear with a frame.
How These Violent Delights is regarded
These Violent Delights holds a literary regard score of 31 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.