Hooking up vs Mémoires: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Sex customs, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir
Hooking up
"Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers...to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves, thanks to the hot new fields of genetics…
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Mémoires
"The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Mémoires is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 5 for Hooking up.
- Mémoires has the widest readership — 1976 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Hooking up | Mémoires | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (1976) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (18) | — |
Reception
| Hooking up | Mémoires | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 18 | 1976 |
| Editions | 18 | 104 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 6641 |
| Reading it now | — | 327 |
| Written reviews | — | 186 |
| Wikipedia attention | 825 | 502 |
| Pages | 293 | 10 |