Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
Published 2015 · 79,200 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Modern Romance to read?
Modern Romance scores 40 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: 38 out of 100
- Plain, funny, colloquial.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Short comic sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Sociological research delivered through jokes.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Focus groups and studies across several countries.
How Modern Romance is regarded
Modern Romance holds a literary regard score of 33 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.