Thinner by Stephen King by Stephen King
Published 2016 · 96,800 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Thinner by Stephen King to read?
Thinner by Stephen King 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: 42 out of 100
- Plain commercial vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Short, propulsive sentences.
- Abstraction: 32 out of 100
- Entirely concrete.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
- A close third person tied to a man losing his grip.
- Symbolic density: 42 out of 100
- The curse and the pie are doing obvious symbolic work.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- A cold irony about the protagonist's self-pity.
- Resolution withholding: 35 out of 100
- The ending is bleak but complete.
- Structural complexity: 28 out of 100
- Linear.
How Thinner by Stephen King is regarded
Thinner by Stephen King holds a literary regard score of 46 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.