A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Published 2009 · 101,200 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster to read?
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster 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: 55 out of 100
- Accessible, with sociological terms.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Long, well-built essayistic sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Five disasters turned into a claim about human nature.
- Information density: 65 out of 100
- A century of catastrophes, closely reported.
How A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster is regarded
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster holds a literary regard score of 60 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.