Think of England by KJ Charles

Published 2014 · 79,200 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is Think of England to read?

Think of England scores 38 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: 45 out of 100
Edwardian vocabulary, comfortably handled.
Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
Clear genre sentences.
Abstraction: 40 out of 100
Concrete throughout.
Information density: 48 out of 100
Moderate, with espionage machinery.
Narrative indirection: 32 out of 100
A single viewpoint that misreads the other man.
Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
Little symbolic layering.
Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
Comic irony from the misjudgement.
Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
Fully resolved.
Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
Linear.

How Think of England is regarded

Think of England holds a literary regard score of 32 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.

About the author

KJ Charles