Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Published 2021 · 70,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Yes, Daddy to read?
Yes, Daddy scores 46 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 42 out of 100
- Plain contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Short, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete, with a running argument about power.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- A narrator addressing his abuser, which shapes everything.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- The estate and the church do sustained work.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Sharp irony about the literary world.
- Resolution withholding: 42 out of 100
- The trial resolves; the damage does not.
- Structural complexity: 42 out of 100
- Two parts, addressed in the second person.
How Yes, Daddy is regarded
Yes, Daddy holds a literary regard score of 27 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.