Angle of repose vs Lancelot: Which Should You Read?
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Angle of repose
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story,…
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Lancelot
"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling." —The New York Times Book Review Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished…
The verdict
- Readers rate Angle of repose highest: Angle of repose 4.1 · Lancelot 3.8.
- Lancelot is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 10 for Angle of repose.
- Angle of repose has the widest readership — 47 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Angle of repose | Lancelot | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 4.2 (47) | 4.2 (4) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (17) | 3.5 (14) |
Reception
| Angle of repose | Lancelot | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 47 | 14 |
| Editions | 20 | 10 |
| Citations | 63 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2279 | 507 |
| Pages | 557 | 257 |