This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers

Published 2023 · 288 pages · 79,200 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You to read?

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You scores 47 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: 50 out of 100
Music-production and neuroscience vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
Clear, engaging sentences.
Abstraction: 55 out of 100
Taste treated as a set of dimensions.
Information density: 58 out of 100
Dense with examples and research.

How This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You is regarded

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You holds a literary regard score of 32 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

Susan Rogers