Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman
Published 1980 · 7,425 words · about 1 hour at an average pace
How hard is Weird Fucks to read?
Weird Fucks scores 56 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: 48 out of 100
- Casual, blunt vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Short, dry sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete encounters, coolly reported.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light; very short pieces.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A narrator who withholds any feeling about what she reports.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 68 out of 100
- The deadpan against the events is the whole method.
- Resolution withholding: 65 out of 100
- Episodes stop rather than conclude.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Loosely linked vignettes.
How Weird Fucks is regarded
Weird Fucks holds a literary regard score of 41 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.