Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Published 2007 · 66,550 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Proust Was a Neuroscientist to read?
Proust Was a Neuroscientist scores 48 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: 52 out of 100
- Art and neuroscience vocabulary together.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear essayistic sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Artists' intuitions matched against brain science.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Eight case studies plus science.
How Proust Was a Neuroscientist is regarded
Proust Was a Neuroscientist holds a literary regard score of 32 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.