The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Published 2019 · 169,125 words · about 17 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World to read?
The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World scores 69 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: 70 out of 100
- Neuroscientific, philosophical and art-historical vocabulary together.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long sentences over 600 pages.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- A theory of Western culture built on hemispheric asymmetry.
- Information density: 80 out of 100
- Extremely dense; neuroscience, philosophy and cultural history at once.
How The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is regarded
The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World holds a literary regard score of 50 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.