Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen
Published 2024
How hard is Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science to read?
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science scores 51 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: 55 out of 100
- Historical and pharmacological vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear narrative sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete biography with a revisionist argument.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Dense archival material.
How Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science is regarded
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science holds a literary regard score of 38 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.