Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
Published 2023
How hard is Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia to read?
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia scores 55 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: 58 out of 100
- Historical and anthropological vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Readable academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Archival material turned into an argument about Enlightenment origins.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with Malagasy history.
How Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia is regarded
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia 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.