Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
Published 2021 · 33,000 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke to read?
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke scores 54 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: 45 out of 100
- Plain vocabulary in period email register.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short messages.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete, escalating.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Light; a novella.
- Narrative indirection: 65 out of 100
- Two correspondents, at least one lying.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- The apple peeler carries the theme.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Distance between the courtesy and the content.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- The ending withholds explanation.
- Structural complexity: 62 out of 100
- Entirely emails and messages.
How Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is regarded
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke 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.