Pageboy by Elliot Page

Published 2023 · 77,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is Pageboy to read?

Pageboy scores 39 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: 42 out of 100
Plain, with some poetic reaching.
Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
Short fragmentary sentences.
Abstraction: 45 out of 100
Concrete recollection with light reflection.
Information density: 45 out of 100
Light per section.

How Pageboy is regarded

Pageboy holds a literary regard score of 31 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

Elliot Page