Range by David Epstein
Published 2019 · 352 pages · 95,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Education & Reference, Nonfiction, Psychology
How hard is Range to read?
Range scores 16 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 25 out of 100
- Accessible vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- Concepts grounded in specific stories.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Dense with research and case studies.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Direct, thesis-driven.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Range as organizing concept.
- Ironic distance: 100 out of 100
- Counterintuitive but earnest.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Clear thesis: generalize more.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Thematic chapters building a case.
How Range is regarded
Range 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.