The Delusions of Certainty by Siri Hustvedt
Published 2017 · 110,000 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Delusions of Certainty to read?
The Delusions of Certainty 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: 68 out of 100
- Philosophy of mind and neuroscience vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Long essayistic sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- The mind-body problem taken on directly.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Dense across several disciplines.
How The Delusions of Certainty is regarded
The Delusions of Certainty holds a literary regard score of 42 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.