Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead
Published 1930 · 95,150 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Growing Up in New Guinea to read?
Growing Up in New Guinea scores 49 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: 52 out of 100
- Accessible by design, with some kinship terminology.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear, readable sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Detailed observation supporting general claims about upbringing.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Steady ethnographic detail.
How Growing Up in New Guinea is regarded
Growing Up in New Guinea holds a literary regard score of 74 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.