The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben

Published 2016 · 289 pages · 74,800 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate to read?

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate scores 40 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 40 out of 100
Simple, with forestry terms explained.
Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
Short, warm sentences.
Abstraction: 42 out of 100
Concrete observation with light anthropomorphic framing.
Information density: 52 out of 100
Steady but never heavy.

How The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate is regarded

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate holds a literary regard score of 46 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

Peter Wohlleben