All the Pretty Horses vs Cattle Brands: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Cowboys, Ranch life, Westerns, Fiction
All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public…
1 film adaptation
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Cattle Brands
From the book:It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but…
The verdict
- Readers rate All the Pretty Horses highest: All the Pretty Horses 4.4 · Cattle Brands 3.7.
- Cattle Brands is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 5 for All the Pretty Horses.
- All the Pretty Horses has the widest readership — 696 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| All the Pretty Horses | Cattle Brands | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.3 (358) | 3.6 (182) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Google Books | 4.0 (16) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (696) | 5.0 (7) |
Reception
| All the Pretty Horses | Cattle Brands | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 696 | 182 |
| Editions | 54 | 16 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 323 | 122 |
| Reading it now | 4 | 88 |
| Written reviews | 16 | 9 |
| Wikipedia attention | 18283 | — |
| Pages | 301 | 176 |