Angela's Ashes vs Che: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Biografías, Biografía, Biography & Memoir
Angela's Ashes
“My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.”
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the…
1 film adaptation
vs
Che
“The horoscope was confounding.”
"Author obviously admires Guevara and thus tends to exaggerate his role in the Cuban Revolution; however, he has managed a degree of objectivity sufficient for production of the best biography of the guerrilla thus far.…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Angela's Ashes is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 15 for Che.
- Che has the widest readership — 25864 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Angela's Ashes | Che | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (25864) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (348) | 5.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 3.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (628) | 4.5 (64) |
Reception
| Angela's Ashes | Che | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 628 | 25864 |
| Editions | 101 | 22 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 45968 |
| Reading it now | — | 2205 |
| Written reviews | — | 1184 |
| Wikipedia attention | 12998 | 960 |
| Pages | 364 | 819 |