The Easy Way to Control Alcohol by Allen Carr

Published 2001 · 44,000 words · about 2 hours at an average pace

How hard is The Easy Way to Control Alcohol to read?

The Easy Way to Control Alcohol scores 28 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: 30 out of 100
Deliberately simple.
Sentence structure: 30 out of 100
Short repetitive sentences.
Abstraction: 35 out of 100
One idea restated many ways.
Information density: 38 out of 100
Very light; repetition is the method.

How The Easy Way to Control Alcohol is regarded

The Easy Way to Control Alcohol holds a literary regard score of 27 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

Allen Carr