The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
Published 2017 · 36,850 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Weird and the Eerie to read?
The Weird and the Eerie scores 61 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: 62 out of 100
- Cultural-theory vocabulary, clearly used.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Clear, readable sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Two categories defined and then tested against works.
- Information density: 65 out of 100
- Many films, books and records read closely.
How The Weird and the Eerie is regarded
The Weird and the Eerie holds a literary regard score of 61 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.