Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
Published 2014 · 196 pages · 49,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Short Fiction
How hard is Thunderstruck & Other Stories to read?
Thunderstruck & Other Stories scores 48 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
- Varied vocabularies across stories.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Precise, thoughtful sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Isolation, connection, and wonder.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Each story richly observed.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Stories reveal through implication.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- Lightning, connection carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- McCracken observes with warmth.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Stories end ambiguously.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Story collection.
How Thunderstruck & Other Stories is regarded
Thunderstruck & Other Stories holds a literary regard score of 57 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.