Yr Dead by Sam Sax
Published 2024 · 298 pages · 74,500 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Yr Dead to read?
Yr Dead scores 54 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: 55 out of 100
- Contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear prose.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Death, communication.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Contemporary setting.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- First person.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Death, text.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Engaged observation.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Story resolves.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How Yr Dead is regarded
Yr Dead holds a literary regard score of 48 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.