Confabulations by John Berger
Published 2017 · 35,200 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is Confabulations to read?
Confabulations scores 55 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: 58 out of 100
- Plain words used at high abstraction.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Short, weighted sentences.
- Abstraction: 70 out of 100
- Language, drawing and politics treated together.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Compressed; short essays carrying a lot.
How Confabulations is regarded
Confabulations holds a literary regard score of 54 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.