I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Published 2024 · 114,400 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom to read?
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom scores 49 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: 40 out of 100
- Plain contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Short, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete chase carrying an argument about online outrage.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- A lot of viewpoints and internet apparatus.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Many narrators, most of them wrong about what is happening.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- The case itself is the symbol.
- Ironic distance: 62 out of 100
- The whole book is satirical about how stories get told.
- Resolution withholding: 42 out of 100
- The mystery resolves, deliberately anticlimactically.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Many short viewpoints plus comment threads and transcripts.
How I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom is regarded
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom holds a literary regard score of 28 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.