Loitering with Intent vs Telling Tales: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Authorship, Biography & Memoir
Loitering with Intent
From Publisher's Weekly: "Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works…
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Telling Tales
Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and digital texts which characterise contemporary life writing. This volume offers a selection…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Loitering with Intent has the widest readership — 5647 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Loitering with Intent | Telling Tales | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (5647) | 3.6 (560) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (9) | 4.0 (25) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (11) | — |
Reception
| Loitering with Intent | Telling Tales | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5647 | 560 |
| Editions | 15 | 6 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 6882 | — |
| Reading it now | 216 | — |
| Written reviews | 832 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 471 | 18 |
| Pages | 217 | 156 |