About Looking by John Berger
Published 1980 · 54,450 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is About Looking to read?
About Looking scores 59 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: 62 out of 100
- Art-critical vocabulary, plainly used.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Short, weighted sentences.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Looking treated as a political and historical act.
- Information density: 65 out of 100
- Essays that compress a great deal into few pages.
How About Looking is regarded
About Looking holds a literary regard score of 68 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.