Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease by Paul Ewald
Published 2002 · 83,600 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease to read?
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease scores 57 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: 62 out of 100
- Evolutionary biology and epidemiology terminology.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Formal but clear scientific sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- A general theory of disease causation built from cases.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Dense with clinical and evolutionary evidence.
How Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease is regarded
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease holds a literary regard score of 47 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.