Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Published 2021 · 320 pages · 88,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Gay Bar: Why We Went Out to read?
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out scores 56 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: 62 out of 100
- A rich, deliberately literary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long, looping sentences that slide between memory and criticism.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Nightlife handled as cultural theory as much as recollection.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Decades of bars, laws and scenes compressed together.
How Gay Bar: Why We Went Out is regarded
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out holds a literary regard score of 54 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.