Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Published 2020 · 61,600 words · about 4 hours at an average pace

How hard is Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex to read?

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex scores 46 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 45 out of 100
Accessible, with terms from sexuality studies.
Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
Clear journalistic sentences.
Abstraction: 55 out of 100
Interviews opening onto conceptual questions about desire.
Information density: 55 out of 100
Many interviews plus research.

How Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex is regarded

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex holds a literary regard score of 45 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.

About the author

Angela Chen