Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan
Published 2020
How hard is Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World to read?
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World scores 41 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 45 out of 100
- Plain, with pharmacology glossed.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear spoken-style sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete self-experiment with light history.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Light; an audio essay.
How Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World is regarded
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World 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.