Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Published 2021 · 66,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life to read?
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life scores 50 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: 48 out of 100
- Accessible, with taxonomic vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Short, warm sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Biography opening onto a philosophical claim about categories.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate; science, history and memoir braided.
How Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life is regarded
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life holds a literary regard score of 41 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.