Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Published 2021 · 61,600 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals to read?
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals scores 43 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 45 out of 100
- Plain, with light philosophical reference.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clean columnist's sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Time management reframed as a question about finitude.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Light; short chapters, one idea each.
How Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals is regarded
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals holds a literary regard score of 42 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.