Lonesome Dove vs Rose: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction - Historical, Historical - General, Romance & Relationships, Historical Fiction, Fiction
Lonesome Dove
“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.”
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last of the American West as it really was. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome…
1 film adaptation
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Rose
The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Rose is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 17 for Lonesome Dove.
- Lonesome Dove has the widest readership — 1776 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Lonesome Dove | Rose | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 1.9 (7) | 4.5 (26) |
| Hardcover | 4.6 (539) | 3.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1776) | 4.5 (75) |
Reception
| Lonesome Dove | Rose | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1776 | 75 |
| Editions | 26 | 26 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 33 |
| Written reviews | — | 2 |
| Wikipedia attention | 66436 | 166 |
| Pages | 945 | 374 |