Farm Animals vs The Great Gatsby: Which Should You Read?
Farm Animals
A dictatorship isn’t evil. It is the evolution of democracy. The people have the right to defend themselves from the evils of oligarchy and the destruction of their culture. Orwell was wrong. Power doesn’t corrupt…
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The Great Gatsby
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Farm Animals is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 7 for The Great Gatsby.
- The Great Gatsby has the widest readership — 6120259 ratings behind its score.
- The Great Gatsby runs the darker storyline; Farm Animals stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Farm Animals | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (6120259) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (806) |
| LiveLib | — | 4.0 (5) |
Reception
| Farm Animals | The Great Gatsby | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1 | 6120259 |
| Editions | 1 | 1179 |
| Citations | — | 24 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 2127185 |
| Reading it now | — | 85180 |
| Written reviews | — | 138625 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 94574 |
| Pages | 142 | 431 |