The Trouble With Being Born by E.M. Cioran
Published 2008 · 57,475 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Trouble With Being Born to read?
The Trouble With Being Born 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: 65 out of 100
- Philosophical vocabulary in compressed translation.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Short aphorisms; the syntax itself is easy.
- Abstraction: 88 out of 100
- Existence handled at pure abstraction, with no examples.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Each line carries a whole position.
How The Trouble With Being Born is regarded
The Trouble With Being Born holds a literary regard score of 61 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.