Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
Published 2024 · 57,475 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs to read?
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs 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, with drug and metabolic terms glossed.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Short, propulsive sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Research reframed as a personal and social question.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Interviews and trials, briskly handled.
How Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs is regarded
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs holds a literary regard score of 33 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.