Reading Level
What is the reading level of This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is 9th and 10th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 9 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 9 |
Reading Time
0 hrs 15 mins
How long to read This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life?
The estimated word count of This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is 3,565 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 0 hrs 15 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 0 hrs 24 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 0 hrs 8 mins.
| This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life - 3,565 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 0 hrs 24 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 0 hrs 15 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 0 hrs 8 mins |
- Authors
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David Foster Wallace
More about This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
3,565 words
Word Count
for This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
137 pages
Pages
23 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.