Fate Is A Mountain by Mark W. Parratt
Published 2009 · 200 pages · 55,000 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction
How hard is Fate Is A Mountain to read?
Fate Is A Mountain scores 14 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: 28 out of 100
- The stories of ranger stations, fire guard duty and blister rust camps use plain, practical language. Park-service terms appear, but nothing approaches the demands of literary prose like The Great Gatsby.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- A trade-paperback collection of family recollections suggests straightforward, conversational sentences. It sits near the plain syntax of Anne Frank's diary rather than anything periodic or nested.
- Abstraction: 22 out of 100
- The book centres on concrete experiences: summers at Sun Camp, fire guard work in the Belly River country, blister rust crews. Like Atomic Habits' examples, it stays with lived detail.
- Information density: 25 out of 100
- At about 55,000 words of anecdotal stories, the pace is light and personal. Park history and ranger work come through in passing, not as dense exposition.
How Fate Is A Mountain is regarded
Fate Is A Mountain holds a literary regard score of 70 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.