Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza
Published 2019 · 65,450 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime to read?
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime scores 45 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: 48 out of 100
- Accessible, with some theory.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Clear essayistic sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- History and memoir mixed.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate.
How Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime is regarded
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime 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.