Reading Level
What is the reading level of Independence Day?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Independence Day is 9th and 10th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Independence Day
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 9 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
Reading Time
12 hrs 39 mins
How long to read Independence Day?
The estimated word count of Independence Day is 189,565 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 12 hrs 39 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 21 hrs 4 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 7 hrs 2 mins.
| Independence Day - 189,565 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 21 hrs 4 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 12 hrs 39 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 7 hrs 2 mins |
- Authors
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Richard Ford
More about Independence Day
189,565 words
Word Count
for Independence Day
20 hours and 23 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend: a search for a house for deeply hapless clients relocating to Vermont; a rendezvous on the Jersey shore with his girlfriend; then up to Connecticut to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son and visit as many sports halls of fame as they can fit into two days. Frank's Independence Day, however, turns out not as he'd planned, and this decent, appealingly bewildered, profoundly observant man is wrenched, gradually and inevitably, out of his private refuge. Independence Day captures the mystery of life — in all its conflicted glory — with grand humour, intense compassion and transfixing power.From the Trade Paperback edition.