Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Published 2023 · 70,400 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Camp Damascus to read?
Camp Damascus scores 41 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 horror sentences.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- Concrete, with a religious argument underneath.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- A narrator whose memory has been tampered with.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- The camp, the demons and the flies carry the meaning.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Steady irony about the church's language.
- Resolution withholding: 32 out of 100
- The plot resolves fully.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear with a late revelation.
How Camp Damascus is regarded
Camp Damascus holds a literary regard score of 35 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.