Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx
Published 2025 · 384 pages · 105,600 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century to read?
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century scores 52 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: 55 out of 100
- Cultural-analysis vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear, well-organised sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- A period treated as a conceptual problem.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with examples.
How Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century is regarded
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century holds a literary regard score of 32 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.