Apt Pupil vs Different Seasons: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Germans, Nazis, Holocaust, Fiction
Apt Pupil
“There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess-I'm the guy who can get it for you.”
A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. ([source][1]) ---------- Also appears in: [Different Seasons][2] [Apt Pupil / Rita…
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Different Seasons
“There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess-I'm the guy who can get it for you.”
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four Stephen King novellas with a more dramatic bend, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. The four novellas are tied together via subtitles that relate to…
The verdict
- Readers rate Different Seasons highest: Different Seasons 4.4 · Apt Pupil 3.9.
- Apt Pupil is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 10 for Different Seasons.
- Different Seasons has the widest readership — 225839 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Apt Pupil | Different Seasons | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.4 (225839) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (109) | 4.2 (462) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (211) | 4.5 (243) |
Reception
| Apt Pupil | Different Seasons | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 211 | 225839 |
| Editions | 10 | 61 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 139489 |
| Reading it now | — | 7359 |
| Written reviews | — | 7969 |
| Wikipedia attention | 7589 | 14405 |
| Pages | 224 | 591 |