The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 2011 · 30,800 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms to read?
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms 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: 55 out of 100
- Compressed and allusive.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- One-line aphorisms; the syntax itself is easy.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Almost entirely abstract; there are no worked examples.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Each line carries a whole claim.
How The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is regarded
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms 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.