Eaters of the Dead vs Eye for an eye: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Eaters of the Dead Eaters of the Dead Michael Crichton · 1976 ★★★★☆ 3.9 221 pages · ≈ 4 h 06 m · Moderate
“The Ibn Fadlan manuscript represents the earliest known eyewitness account of Viking life and society.”

Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by…

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Cover of Eye for an eye Eye for an eye Frank Muir · 2014 ★★★★☆ 3.9 303 pages · ≈ 5 h 37 m · Moderate

"Six corpses have appeared in the cobbled back streets of St. Andrews in recent times, all known spousal abusers who suffered the same gruesome fate: stabbed to death in the left eye. But with no new leads left to…

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The verdict

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Eaters of the DeadEye for an eye
Goodreads — 3.9 (1645)
Hardcover 3.5 (158) 4.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.0 (417) —

Reception

Eaters of the DeadEye for an eye
Ratings 417 1645
Editions 50 1
Citations 9 —
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read — 1212
Reading it now — 108
Written reviews — 139
Wikipedia attention 8889 8904
Pages 221 303

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