Raving by McKenzie Wark
Published 1993 · 40,975 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Raving to read?
Raving 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: 58 out of 100
- Theory vocabulary against club slang.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Short fragments.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- The rave treated as a philosophical situation.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Light per fragment.
How Raving is regarded
Raving holds a literary regard score of 44 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.