Folly and Glory vs Sin killer: Which Should You Read?

Folly and Glory Larry McMurtry · 2001 ★★★★☆ 4.2 236 pages · ≈ 4 h 22 m · Moderate

“PETEY, the sensitive twin, aged one year and a half, began to sneeze and couldn't stop, giving Petal her chance: she at once seized a stuffed blue rooster the two had been fighting over and slipped behind her mother, waiting to see what her twin would do when he stopped sneezing and discovered the theft.”

"As this finale opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his…

Sin killer Larry McMurtry · 2002 ★★★★☆ 3.7 300 pages · ≈ 5 h 33 m · Moderate

“IN the darkness beyond the great Missouri's shore at last lay the West, toward which Tasmin and her family, the numerous Berrybenders, had so long been tending.”

"It is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up." "Accompanied by a large and varied…