Lancelot vs Larry's Party: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Men in fiction, Men, Fiction
Lancelot
"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling." —The New York Times Book Review Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished…
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Larry's Party
Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Larry's Party has the widest readership — 9196 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Lancelot | Larry's Party | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.7 (9196) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (4) | 3.9 (9) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (2) | 4.5 (2) |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (14) | — |
Reception
| Lancelot | Larry's Party | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 14 | 9196 |
| Editions | 10 | 35 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 3863 |
| Reading it now | — | 115 |
| Written reviews | — | 569 |
| Wikipedia attention | 507 | 265 |
| Pages | 257 | 358 |