Eaters of the Dead vs Eye for an eye: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Eaters of the Dead
“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…
1 film adaptation
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Eye for an eye
"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…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Eye for an eye has the widest readership — 1645 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Eaters of the Dead | Eye for an eye | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (1645) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (158) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (417) | — |
Reception
| Eaters of the Dead | Eye 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 |