Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Published 2025 · 57,200 words · about 4 hours at an average pace

How hard is Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart to read?

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart scores 51 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: 52 out of 100
Accessible, with some media-theory vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
Clear, well-built sentences.
Abstraction: 60 out of 100
Social media handled through psychology and philosophy.
Information density: 58 out of 100
Research and history together, steadily paced.

How Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart is regarded

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart holds a literary regard score of 41 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.

About the author

Nicholas Carr