States of Desire: Travels in Gay America by Edmund White
Published 1986 · 343 pages · 94,325 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is States of Desire: Travels in Gay America to read?
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America scores 50 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: 58 out of 100
- Rich, literary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Long, elegant sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Reportage constantly turning into reflection.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- A dozen cities and a large cast.
How States of Desire: Travels in Gay America is regarded
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America holds a literary regard score of 58 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.