Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
Published 1990 · 41,525 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black to read?
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black scores 53 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: 45 out of 100
- Casual, profane, offhand vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light per piece.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- A narrator who reports the worst events in the same cheerful register as the rest.
- Symbolic density: 42 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 65 out of 100
- The flat comic tone against catastrophe is the whole voice.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- Pieces stop rather than conclude.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Loosely linked autobiographical stories.
How Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is regarded
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black holds a literary regard score of 45 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.