Drawdown by Paul Hawken
Published 2017 · 240 pages · 110,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Education & Reference, Nature & Environment, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
How hard is Drawdown to read?
Drawdown scores 21 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: 30 out of 100
- Environmental and scientific terminology.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Abstraction: 30 out of 100
- Concrete solutions with quantified impact.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Extremely dense. Eighty solutions with data.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Direct, reference-style presentation.
- Symbolic density: 80 out of 100
- Analytical. Minimal symbolism.
- Ironic distance: 50 out of 100
- Earnest, solutions-focused.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Solutions are presented. Implementation is ongoing.
- Structural complexity: 25 out of 100
- Eighty ranked solutions. Reference structure.
How Drawdown is regarded
Drawdown holds a literary regard score of 40 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.