La Chute vs Notre Dame de Paris: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: French fiction, French literature, French language, Continental european fiction, Fiction
La Chute
“MAY 1, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?”
Num bar de marinheiros em Amesterdão, um homem que se apresenta como juiz-penitente enceta conversa com um desconhecido. Entre copos de Genebra e deambulações pelas ruas daquela cidade de canais concêntricos, a fazer…
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Notre Dame de Paris
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- La Chute is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 7 for Notre Dame de Paris.
- Notre Dame de Paris has the widest readership — 224399 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| La Chute | Notre Dame de Paris | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (144890) | 4.0 (224399) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (1) | — |
Reception
| La Chute | Notre Dame de Paris | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 144890 | 224399 |
| Editions | 145 | 265 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 207261 | 272359 |
| Reading it now | 6923 | — |
| Written reviews | 10808 | 10083 |
| Wikipedia attention | 7144 | 53026 |
| Pages | 147 | 409 |