When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan
Published 2019 · 88,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History to read?
When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History scores 46 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: 50 out of 100
- Accessible historical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear narrative sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Concrete local history.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with archival detail.
How When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History is regarded
When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History holds a literary regard score of 38 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.