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(5) Tree Line
Solaris is short, and the language and sentence structure is straightforward. Which is good, because there's a lot of dry technical mumbo jumbo, and the plot is vague and drifty and suggestive rather than page-turning and event-filled. So Shmoop considers this read middling hard, and as such, we've placed it smack in the middle of the tough-o-meter.