Condensed novels vs Frontier Stories: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Westerns, Social life and customs, Fiction
Condensed novels
The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him…
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Frontier Stories
Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit,…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Condensed novels is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Frontier Stories.
- Frontier Stories has the widest readership — 6 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Condensed novels | Frontier Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (5) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (6) |
Reception
| Condensed novels | Frontier Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5 | 6 |
| Editions | 27 | 15 |
| Want to read | 11 | — |
| Reading it now | 4 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 392 |
| Pages | 219 | 388 |