Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
Published 2021 · 70,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Several People Are Typing to read?
Several People Are Typing scores 55 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: 40 out of 100
- Workplace-chat vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Very short messages.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete, with an absurd premise.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light per message.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- A narrator claiming to be inside a chat app.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The app itself is the figure.
- Ironic distance: 68 out of 100
- Sustained satire of office language.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- It resolves absurdly.
- Structural complexity: 72 out of 100
- Entirely chat transcripts.
How Several People Are Typing is regarded
Several People Are Typing holds a literary regard score of 29 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.