Doctor Sleep vs The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Bien y mal, Good and evil, Horror, Fiction
Doctor Sleep
“On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing business in the White House, one of Colorado's great resort hotels burned to the ground. The Overlook was declared a total loss.”
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True…
1 film adaptation
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most…
The verdict
- Readers rate Doctor Sleep highest: Doctor Sleep 4.4 · The Ocean at the End of the Lane 4.0.
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 9 for Doctor Sleep.
- Doctor Sleep has the widest readership — 5245 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Doctor Sleep | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (155) | 4.2 (5) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (687) | 4.0 (1828) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (5) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (5245) | 4.0 (2152) |
Reception
| Doctor Sleep | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5245 | 2152 |
| Editions | 52 | 49 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 3 |
| Written reviews | — | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 13324 | 4458 |
| Pages | 505 | 208 |