Just Kids vs Letters of Wallace Stevens: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: American Poets, Poets, Biography & Memoir
Just Kids
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young…
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Letters of Wallace Stevens
Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Just Kids is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 16 for Letters of Wallace Stevens.
- Just Kids has the widest readership — 378913 ratings behind its score.
- Just Kids runs the darker storyline; Letters of Wallace Stevens stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Just Kids | Letters of Wallace Stevens | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (378913) | 4.3 (98) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (297) | — |
| Google Books | 4.0 (4) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1080) | — |
Reception
| Just Kids | Letters of Wallace Stevens | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 378913 | 98 |
| Editions | 32 | 8 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 533236 | 196 |
| Reading it now | 24575 | 6 |
| Written reviews | 34676 | 3 |
| Wikipedia attention | 7103 | — |
| Pages | 310 | 890 |