Code of the West vs Terms of Endearment: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: West, Westerns, Romance & Relationships, American literature, Fiction
Code of the West
Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man's heart while he's eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an…
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Terms of Endearment
“"THE SUCCESS of a marriage invariably depends on the woman," Mrs. Greenway said.”
Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Terms of Endearment highest: Terms of Endearment 4.3 · Code of the West 3.9.
- Code of the West has the widest readership — 663 ratings behind its score.
- Terms of Endearment reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 4 times.
Scores by source
| Code of the West | Terms of Endearment | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (663) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 4.1 (11) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (18) | 4.5 (60) |
Reception
| Code of the West | Terms of Endearment | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 663 | 60 |
| Editions | 78 | 28 |
| Citations | 3 | 4 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 282 | — |
| Reading it now | 142 | — |
| Written reviews | 57 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 131 | 3382 |
| Pages | 368 | 410 |