Cocaína vs What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Which Should You Read?
Cocaína
Describes the social, political, and economic effects of the illicit cocaine trade in Colombia since the death of Pablo Escobar, from the individual effect on destitute Colombian citizens to the nation's relations with…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Cocaína.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love has the widest readership — 81529 ratings behind its score.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love runs the darker storyline; Cocaína stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Cocaína | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (81529) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (145) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (77) |
Reception
| Cocaína | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1 | 81529 |
| Editions | 5 | 33 |
| Citations | — | 108 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 132609 |
| Reading it now | — | 4800 |
| Written reviews | — | 8028 |
| Wikipedia attention | 264 | 6054 |
| Pages | 275 | 159 |