Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Published 2022 · 160 pages · 14,599 words · about 1 hour at an average pace · Fantasy
How hard is Treacle Walker to read?
Treacle Walker scores 67 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: 70 out of 100
- Garner archaic vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Mythic prose.
- Abstraction: 75 out of 100
- Time, myth, reality.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- English countryside.
- Narrative indirection: 70 out of 100
- Mythic structure.
- Symbolic density: 78 out of 100
- Treacle, walker, time.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Mythic distance.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- Mythic ending.
- Structural complexity: 65 out of 100
- Mythic novella.
How Treacle Walker is regarded
Treacle Walker holds a literary regard score of 80 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.