Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
Published 2021 · 138,875 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 to read?
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 scores 54 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: 55 out of 100
- Activist and medical vocabulary together.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear sentences over 700 pages.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Oral history generalised into a theory of organising.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Very dense — nearly 200 interviews.
How Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 is regarded
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 holds a literary regard score of 59 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.