Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Published 2017 · 136,400 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is Walkaway to read?
Walkaway scores 51 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: 52 out of 100
- Technical and political vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Clear, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Concrete action carrying a heavy political argument.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with technology and theory.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Several reliable viewpoints.
- Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
- The walkaway itself is the figure.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Some satirical distance from the default world.
- Resolution withholding: 48 out of 100
- The political question is left open.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Multiple viewpoints across decades.
How Walkaway is regarded
Walkaway holds a literary regard score of 38 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.