Flint vs The Trail to Crazy Man: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Western, Westerns, Fiction
Flint
He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated.Now,…
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The Trail to Crazy Man
A word from Louis L'Amour:"Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editors called 'magazine novels'. In…
The verdict
- Readers rate Flint highest: Flint 4.3 · The Trail to Crazy Man 4.0.
- Flint is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for The Trail to Crazy Man.
- Flint has the widest readership — 7699 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Flint | The Trail to Crazy Man | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (7699) | 4.0 (1488) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (6) | — |
| Google Books | 3.5 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (523) | 4.5 (64) |
Reception
| Flint | The Trail to Crazy Man | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 7699 | 1488 |
| Editions | 27 | 19 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 566 |
| Reading it now | — | 351 |
| Written reviews | — | 73 |
| Wikipedia attention | 15305 | — |
| Pages | 183 | 340 |