Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari

Published 2018 · 88,275 words · about 6 hours at an average pace

How hard is Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope to read?

Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope 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: 42 out of 100
Plain journalistic vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
Short, propulsive sentences.
Abstraction: 50 out of 100
Research reframed as a social argument.
Information density: 55 out of 100
Many interviews, briskly handled.

How Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope is regarded

Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope 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.

About the author

Johann Hari