BITTER NIGHT vs Red Dragon: Which Should You Read?
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BITTER NIGHT
A FORGOTTEN MURDER. A SECRET SOMEONE WILL KILL TO PROTECT. In 1978, Ervin Porter was a rising young producer working on one of television’s most popular detective shows. Then he was found brutally murdered in an…
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Red Dragon
“WILL GRAHAM SAT Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea.”
Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial-killer nicknamed…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Red Dragon highest: Red Dragon 4.1 · BITTER NIGHT 3.8.
- Red Dragon has the widest readership — 383128 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| BITTER NIGHT | Red Dragon | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (383128) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (578) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 4.5 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (1077) |
Reception
| BITTER NIGHT | Red Dragon | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1 | 383128 |
| Editions | — | 60 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 240914 |
| Reading it now | — | 8787 |
| Written reviews | — | 10538 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 28249 |
| Pages | — | 415 |