The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi
Published 2022 · 39,600 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on to read?
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on scores 59 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: 52 out of 100
- Contemporary vocabulary with technical and diasporic terms.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Varied forms, several procedural.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Apocalypse treated as an abstraction with many pasts.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Compressed.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- A speaker moving between historical selves.
- Symbolic density: 68 out of 100
- The ending world is the sustained figure.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Frequent turns against the poem's own despair.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- Poems end on suspension.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Several formal experiments across the sequence.
How The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on is regarded
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on holds a literary regard score of 39 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.