A Prayer for Owen Meany vs Das Ende einer Affäre: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Religious Fiction, Male friendship, Psychological fiction, Fiction
A Prayer for Owen Meany
"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason…
1 film adaptation
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Das Ende einer Affäre
"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, of which he is the narrator. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the…
The verdict
- Readers rate A Prayer for Owen Meany highest: A Prayer for Owen Meany 4.4 · Das Ende einer Affäre 3.9.
- Das Ende einer Affäre is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 10 for A Prayer for Owen Meany.
- Das Ende einer Affäre has the widest readership — 74418 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | Das Ende einer Affäre | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (74418) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (338) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (782) | — |
Reception
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | Das Ende einer Affäre | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 782 | 74418 |
| Editions | 32 | 74 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 10025 | — |
| Pages | 543 | 193 |