Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
Published 2020 · 320 pages · 80,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Mystery & Crime
How hard is Who They Was to read?
Who They Was scores 56 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: 62 out of 100
- London street vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Voice-driven prose.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- Class, crime, education.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- London estates.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- First person.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Identity, education.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Voice irony.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Education continues.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How Who They Was is regarded
Who They Was holds a literary regard score of 52 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.