Bless Me, Ultima vs Cry, The Beloved Country: Which Should You Read?
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Bless Me, Ultima
Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
2 film adaptations
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Cry, The Beloved Country
“IT IS SOME eleven years since the first Author's Note was written.”
This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Cry, The Beloved Country has the widest readership — 81000 ratings behind its score.
- Bless Me, Ultima has the bigger screen life — 2 adaptations on record.
Scores by source
| Bless Me, Ultima | Cry, The Beloved Country | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (38181) | 3.9 (81000) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (45) | 2.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 2.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (334) | 4.0 (171) |
Reception
| Bless Me, Ultima | Cry, The Beloved Country | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 38181 | 81000 |
| Editions | 44 | 59 |
| Film adaptations | 2 | 1 |
| Want to read | 25555 | 54502 |
| Reading it now | 1982 | 1871 |
| Written reviews | 3370 | 5566 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2604 | 4147 |
| Pages | 252 | 258 |