AS A MAN THINKETH Deluxe Collection of Five Favorite James Allen Works [Annotated & Unabridged]: Includes BONUS Entire AUDIOBOOK Narration by James Allen
Published 2009 · 86,075 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Self-Help, Religion & Spirituality, Essays & Criticism
How hard is AS A MAN THINKETH Deluxe Collection of Five Favorite James Allen Works [Annotated & Unabridged]: Includes BONUS Entire AUDIOBOOK Narration to read?
AS A MAN THINKETH Deluxe Collection of Five Favorite James Allen Works [Annotated & Unabridged]: Includes BONUS Entire AUDIOBOOK Narration scores 23 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 38 out of 100
- Allen's prose from 1902 to 1911 uses formal, slightly archaic diction, but the words stay common and the essays read as popular devotional writing. It is harder than a modern self-help book like Atomic Habits yet far from a literary stylist like Nabokov.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- The essays use balanced, aphoristic sentences with some Victorian periodic structure. Sentences are measured and easy to follow, closer to The Remains of the Day than to anything experimental.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Allen discusses thought, character, purpose and peace in general terms, with few concrete case studies. That sits above Atomic Habits, which leans on examples, but the ideas are simple moral claims rather than philosophical systems.
- Information density: 30 out of 100
- Five short treatises repeat a small set of core ideas: thought shapes character and circumstance. Little new information arrives per page, so the density is light, though the collection offers many short chapters.
How AS A MAN THINKETH Deluxe Collection of Five Favorite James Allen Works [Annotated & Unabridged]: Includes BONUS Entire AUDIOBOOK Narration is regarded
AS A MAN THINKETH Deluxe Collection of Five Favorite James Allen Works [Annotated & Unabridged]: Includes BONUS Entire AUDIOBOOK Narration holds a literary regard score of 37 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.