This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Published 2014 · 160,000 words · about 11 hours at an average pace · Nature & Environment, Nonfiction, Politics & Society
How hard is This Changes Everything to read?
This Changes Everything 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
- Political and environmental vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- Systemic analysis grounded in specific communities.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Dense with evidence and political analysis.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Direct argument with reported examples.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- Climate as test of economic system.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Critical distance from capitalist solutions.
- Resolution withholding: 15 out of 100
- Proposes transformation but it hasn't happened.
- Structural complexity: 28 out of 100
- Three parts with extensive reporting.
How This Changes Everything is regarded
This Changes Everything holds a literary regard score of 44 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.