Direct Action: An Ethnography by David Graeber
Published 2009 · 165,000 words · about 13 hours at an average pace
How hard is Direct Action: An Ethnography to read?
Direct Action: An Ethnography scores 58 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: 62 out of 100
- Activist and anthropological vocabulary together.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Long academic sentences over many hundreds of pages.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Minute meeting-by-meeting description generalised into theory.
- Information density: 82 out of 100
- Exhaustive by design; it records almost everything.
How Direct Action: An Ethnography is regarded
Direct Action: An Ethnography holds a literary regard score of 50 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.