Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
Published 2011 · 79,750 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain to read?
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain scores 45 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
- Neuroscience terms, glossed.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, brisk sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete experiments supporting claims about the unconscious.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- A lot of studies, briskly handled.
How Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain is regarded
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain holds a literary regard score of 46 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.