We Spread by Iain Reid
Published 2022 · 83,600 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is We Spread to read?
We Spread scores 55 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
- Plain, spare vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, unsettling sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete care home with an unstable reality.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Light.
- Narrative indirection: 72 out of 100
- An elderly narrator whose perception cannot be trusted.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The paintings and the house carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Distance between her account and what may be happening.
- Resolution withholding: 72 out of 100
- Nothing is confirmed.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Linear but unreliable.
How We Spread is regarded
We Spread holds a literary regard score of 30 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.