Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Published 2020 · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction
How hard is Untamed to read?
Untamed scores 14 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 18 out of 100
- Simple, accessible vocabulary. Inspirational and confessional register.
- Sentence structure: 18 out of 100
- Abstraction: 25 out of 100
- Personal anecdote generalized into universal claims about women's lives.
- Information density: 25 out of 100
- Light density. Emotional resonance over intellectual depth.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Completely direct. Each essay states its point explicitly.
- Symbolic density: 18 out of 100
- The cheetah metaphor is central and insistent. Cage imagery throughout.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Zero ironic distance. Radically sincere and earnest throughout.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Each essay arrives quickly at its inspirational conclusion.
- Structural complexity: 12 out of 100
- Short standalone essays and meditations. No complex architecture.
How Untamed is regarded
Untamed holds a literary regard score of 23 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.