How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
Published 2016 · 230,450 words · about 15 hours at an average pace
How hard is How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS to read?
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS scores 50 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: 52 out of 100
- Clinical and activist vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear reportorial sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete history with a clear causal argument.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Very dense — a huge cast across a decade.
How How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS is regarded
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS holds a literary regard score of 53 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.