Either/or vs The Idiot: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Women college students, Identity, Coming-of-age, Fiction
Either/or
Selin returns to Harvard for her sophomore year, spends lots of time thinking about Ivan, then moves on.
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The Idiot
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling…
The verdict
- Readers rate Either/or highest: Either/or 4.0 · The Idiot 3.6.
- The Idiot has the widest readership — 114150 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Either/or | The Idiot | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.6 (114150) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (54) | 3.7 (188) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (89) | 4.0 (382) |
Reception
| Either/or | The Idiot | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 89 | 114150 |
| Editions | 9 | 15 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 268745 |
| Reading it now | — | 13037 |
| Written reviews | — | 20209 |
| Wikipedia attention | 1063 | 3632 |
| Pages | 360 | 419 |