Unexploded by Alison MacLeod
Published 2013 · 339 pages · 84,750 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction
How hard is Unexploded to read?
Unexploded scores 57 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
- WWII vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Fuller prose.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- War, home front, secrets.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- WWII Brighton.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Third person.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Unexploded, bombs.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Period engagement.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- War continues.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How Unexploded is regarded
Unexploded holds a literary regard score of 52 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.