Catching Fire by Richard W. Wrangham
Published 2009 · 84,975 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Catching Fire to read?
Catching Fire scores 50 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: 52 out of 100
- Accessible biological anthropology vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear, well-organised sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- A single hypothesis pursued through concrete evidence.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Steady; archaeology, physiology and primatology together.
How Catching Fire is regarded
Catching Fire holds a literary regard score of 64 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.