Bloodsucking Fiends vs The Crook Factory: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Bloodsucking Fiends
“Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below.”
At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of…
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The Crook Factory
It's the summer of 1942, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of the Director to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway in the Caribbean. Lucas thinks of it as a demotion-a babysitting job for a famous writer…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Bloodsucking Fiends is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 10 for The Crook Factory.
- Bloodsucking Fiends has the widest readership — 217 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Bloodsucking Fiends | The Crook Factory | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.7 (143) | 3.2 (8) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (217) | 4.5 (24) |
Reception
| Bloodsucking Fiends | The Crook Factory | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 217 | 24 |
| Editions | 6 | 6 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 446 | 362 |
| Pages | 304 | 576 |