Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession by Don Kulick
Published 2005 · 70,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession to read?
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession scores 54 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: 60 out of 100
- Anthropological and body-studies vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Academic sentences across several contributors.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Fat treated as a conceptual object rather than a condition.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- An essay collection, so dense and uneven.
How Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession is regarded
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession holds a literary regard score of 39 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.