Berserker vs Rime of the ancient mariner: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Berserker
[Berserkers][1]: Relentless, remorseless, pity less, tireless, adaptive, cunning, self replicating, artificially intelligent, genocidal doomsday weapons of a long forgotten interstellar war between two extraterrestrial…
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Rime of the ancient mariner
A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.The Rime of the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Rime of the ancient mariner is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 5 for Berserker.
- Rime of the ancient mariner has the widest readership — 63811 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Berserker | Rime of the ancient mariner | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (7759) | 4.0 (63811) |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (30) | 3.9 (73) |
| Google Books | 1.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (30) | 4.0 (33) |
Reception
| Berserker | Rime of the ancient mariner | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 7759 | 63811 |
| Editions | 11 | 156 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 3973 | 33970 |
| Reading it now | 183 | 1035 |
| Written reviews | 184 | 1983 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2543 | 26526 |
| Pages | 309 | 44 |