Immediatism by Peter Lamborn Wilson

Published 1994 · 16,500 words · about 1 hour at an average pace

How hard is Immediatism to read?

Immediatism scores 57 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: 58 out of 100
Anarchist and esoteric vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
Short, declamatory sentences.
Abstraction: 75 out of 100
A pamphlet almost entirely at the level of principle.
Information density: 52 out of 100
Very short.

How Immediatism is regarded

Immediatism holds a literary regard score of 36 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.

About the author

Peter Lamborn Wilson