To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Published 2019 · 38,500 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is To Be Taught, If Fortunate to read?
To Be Taught, If Fortunate scores 50 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: 48 out of 100
- Accessible, with real astrophysics.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear, warm sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete mission with philosophical framing.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Considerable science.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- A single reliable report back to Earth.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- Somaforming carries the theme.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Little irony.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- It ends on an unanswered question to the reader.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- A single transmission.
How To Be Taught, If Fortunate is regarded
To Be Taught, If Fortunate holds a literary regard score of 37 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.