An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Published 2022 · 118,800 words · about 8 hours at an average pace

How hard is An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us to read?

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us scores 52 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
Sensory-biology terminology, carefully glossed.
Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
Clear, vivid sentences.
Abstraction: 58 out of 100
Concrete animal experience pushed toward the philosophical.
Information density: 72 out of 100
Very dense — dozens of species and studies.

How An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us is regarded

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us holds a literary regard score of 51 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.

About the author

Ed Yong