Not Everyone Lives the Same Way by Jean-Paul Dubois

Published 2019 · 184 pages · 65,468 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction

How hard is Not Everyone Lives the Same Way to read?

Not Everyone Lives the Same Way scores 56 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: 58 out of 100
French vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
Dubois prose.
Abstraction: 62 out of 100
Masculinity, violence, memory.
Information density: 58 out of 100
Quebec, prison.
Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
First person.
Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
World, ways of living.
Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
Engaged reflection.
Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
Prison memoir.
Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
Linear narrative.

How Not Everyone Lives the Same Way is regarded

Not Everyone Lives the Same Way holds a literary regard score of 50 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

Jean-Paul Dubois