Cuentos vs Mother Night: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Cuentos
William Wilson Pit and the Pendulum MS. Found in a Bottle Black Cat Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Oval Portrait Tell-tale Heart Descent into the Maelstrom Cask of Amontillado Masque of the Red Death Un cuento de las…
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Mother Night
Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Mother Night highest: Mother Night 4.2 · Cuentos 3.9.
- Mother Night is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 15 for Cuentos.
- Mother Night has the widest readership — 110884 ratings behind its score.
- Mother Night runs the darker storyline; Cuentos stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Cuentos | Mother Night | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.2 (110884) |
| Hardcover | 4.7 (3) | 4.2 (376) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (398) |
Reception
| Cuentos | Mother Night | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3 | 110884 |
| Editions | 4 | 60 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 96533 |
| Reading it now | — | 2696 |
| Written reviews | — | 6424 |
| Wikipedia attention | 201 | 5376 |
| Pages | 850 | 206 |