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It works just fine for fiction. Ulysses is a very special edge case in the pantheon of all literature, so it's no surprise it doesn't work well for this one case.


> It works just fine for fiction

how about some other well-known novels and their scores?


You can sort their list by reading ease: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?page=21&per-page=48&sort=r...

A lot of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey


OK, I tried that. Among the hardest fiction:

Moll Flanders Tristram Shandy Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe


The Sun Also Rises is easier than Winnie the Pooh. I can buy that.


How's it handle Finnegans Wake?


Ulysses has mostly "real" words while Finnegans Wake is largely made of portmanteaus. It'll be interesting to see the results!


I just ran it and got "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Is this one of Joyce's silly sentences he's famous for?


He was such a futurist, that Joyce /s


Got another 11 years to wait before that enters the US public domain, unfortunately.




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