Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
Published 1999 · 60,775 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Times Square Red, Times Square Blue to read?
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue scores 62 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: 65 out of 100
- Theoretical vocabulary alongside frank sexual description.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long, carefully built sentences.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Personal encounters raised to urban theory.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Dense; memoir and argument at once.
How Times Square Red, Times Square Blue is regarded
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue holds a literary regard score of 65 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.