Les Dieux Ont Soif vs Notre Dame de Paris: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: French literature, French language, Continental european fiction, History, Fiction
Les Dieux Ont Soif
Academic historians probably read historical novels in two ways: as general readers and as experts on a period. At a guess, Anatole France’s Les dieux ont soif (1912) is not likely to satisfy under either heading. The…
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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
- Readers rate Notre Dame de Paris highest: Notre Dame de Paris 4.0 · Les Dieux Ont Soif 3.8.
- Les Dieux Ont Soif is the quickest read — about 5 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
| Les Dieux Ont Soif | Notre Dame de Paris | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (3344) | 4.0 (224399) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (3) | — |
Reception
| Les Dieux Ont Soif | Notre Dame de Paris | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3344 | 224399 |
| Editions | 86 | 265 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 8631 | 272359 |
| Reading it now | 220 | — |
| Written reviews | 370 | 10083 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 53026 |
| Pages | 285 | 409 |