Breakfast of Champions vs Where the Red Fern Grows: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny…
1 film adaptation
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Where the Red Fern Grows
“When I left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me.”
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys two hunting dogs. ---------- Also contained in: Prentice Hall Literature: Bronze
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Where the Red Fern Grows has the widest readership — 449867 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Breakfast of Champions | Where the Red Fern Grows | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (285692) | 4.1 (449867) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (724) | 3.9 (424) |
| Google Books | — | 4.5 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (391) | 4.5 (3001) |
Reception
| Breakfast of Champions | Where the Red Fern Grows | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 285692 | 449867 |
| Editions | 60 | 57 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 188040 | 145076 |
| Reading it now | 6568 | 7567 |
| Written reviews | 12506 | 16457 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9158 | 12422 |
| Pages | 322 | 249 |