Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
Published 1927 · 292 pages · 73,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism, Philosophy
How hard is Why I Am Not a Christian to read?
Why I Am Not a Christian scores 43 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: 68 out of 100
- Philosophical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Russell clear argument.
- Abstraction: 80 out of 100
- Religion, ethics, reason.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Philosophical arguments.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Direct argument.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Logical argument.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Witty critique.
- Resolution withholding: 40 out of 100
- Clear conclusion.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Essay collection.
How Why I Am Not a Christian is regarded
Why I Am Not a Christian holds a literary regard score of 65 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.