A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros
Published 2014 · 62,425 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is A Philosophy of Walking to read?
A Philosophy of Walking scores 51 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
- Philosophical vocabulary in translation.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Short chapters, clear sentences.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Walking used as a frame for philosophy.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Light; portraits rather than argument.
How A Philosophy of Walking is regarded
A Philosophy of Walking holds a literary regard score of 39 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.