Dust tracks on a road vs The Web and the Rock: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: American Novelists, American Authors, Biography & Memoir, Fiction
Dust tracks on a road
“Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me.”
xii, 308, 16 pages: 21 cm
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The Web and the Rock
“UP TO THE TIME GEORGE WEBBER'S FATHER DIED, THERE WERE SOME UNforgiving souls in the town of Libya Hill who spoke of him as a man who not only had deserted his wife and child, but had consummated his iniquity by going off to live with another woman.”
George Webber, a man raised and schooled in the south, moves to New York City where he aspires to become a successful writer, but his ambition is sidetracked when he becomes tragically obsessed with the beautiful,…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Dust tracks on a road is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 12 for The Web and the Rock.
- Dust tracks on a road has the widest readership — 8467 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Dust tracks on a road | The Web and the Rock | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (8467) | 4.0 (687) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (13) | 4.0 (2) |
| Google Books | 2.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (27) | — |
Reception
| Dust tracks on a road | The Web and the Rock | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 8467 | 687 |
| Editions | 33 | 39 |
| Citations | 168 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 20574 | — |
| Reading it now | 908 | — |
| Written reviews | 693 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 259 | 500 |
| Pages | 328 | 695 |