Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Published 2024 · 83,600 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Bury Your Gays to read?
Bury Your Gays scores 43 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: 38 out of 100
- Plain contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Short, propulsive sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete, with a strong metafictional layer.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate, with Hollywood apparatus.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- A screenwriter narrator with an obvious stake in the telling.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The trope itself is the book's central symbol.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Sustained irony about genre convention.
- Resolution withholding: 32 out of 100
- The plot resolves.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Linear with embedded scripts.
How Bury Your Gays is regarded
Bury Your Gays holds a literary regard score of 33 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.