Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Published 2015 · 548 pages · 130,000 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science & Nature
How hard is Homo Deus to read?
Homo Deus scores 33 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: 35 out of 100
- Scientific and philosophical terminology. Accessible popular science.
- Sentence structure: 30 out of 100
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Sweeping philosophical argument about the future of humanity.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Dense with science, history, and speculative argument.
- Narrative indirection: 15 out of 100
- Direct, thesis-driven argument.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- Analytical rather than symbolic.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Harari writes with provocative coolness.
- Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
- The future is inherently unresolved. Harari raises questions rather than answering them.
- Structural complexity: 25 out of 100
- Three parts: Homo sapiens conquers the world, finds meaning, loses control.
How Homo Deus is regarded
Homo Deus holds a literary regard score of 44 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.