The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow
Published 2021 · 193,600 words · about 17 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Dawn of Everything to read?
The Dawn of Everything scores 63 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: 58 out of 100
- Archaeological and anthropological vocabulary, well glossed.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Readable sentences over seven hundred pages.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- A reframing of human history as a whole.
- Information density: 82 out of 100
- Extremely dense; dozens of societies across millennia.
How The Dawn of Everything is regarded
The Dawn of Everything holds a literary regard score of 65 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.