A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Published 2005 · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · History, Nonfiction, Travel & Food
How hard is A History of the World in 6 Glasses to read?
A History of the World in 6 Glasses scores 17 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: 25 out of 100
- Accessible. Historical terms well-explained.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 25 out of 100
- Concrete material objects as windows into history.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Moderate. Entertaining and informative.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Six sequential, self-contained sections.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- Each beverage as symbol of its era.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Light, witty tone.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Each section reaches clear conclusions.
- Structural complexity: 18 out of 100
- Six parallel-structured sections.
How A History of the World in 6 Glasses is regarded
A History of the World in 6 Glasses holds a literary regard score of 36 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.