The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts
Published 1987
How hard is The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety to read?
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety scores 55 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: 52 out of 100
- Plain English carrying Buddhist and Taoist concepts.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear, well-shaped sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Almost entirely about consciousness and impermanence.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Short; it repeats deliberately.
How The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety is regarded
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety 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.