Maruja vs Pardners: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Social life and customs, Fiction
Maruja
Morning was breaking on the high road to San Jose. The long lines of dusty, level track were beginning to extend their vanishing point in the growing light; on either side the awakening fields of wheat and oats were…
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Pardners
Pardners is a Fiction Short Story Book. "Most all the old quotations need fixing", said Joyce in tones forbidding dispute. "For instance, the guy that alluded to marriages germinating in heaven certainly got off on the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Pardners is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 4 for Maruja.
- Maruja has the widest readership — 76 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Maruja | Pardners | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (76) | 3.7 (11) |
Reception
| Maruja | Pardners | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 76 | 11 |
| Editions | 21 | 34 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 12 | 11 |
| Reading it now | — | 2 |
| Written reviews | — | 3 |
| Wikipedia attention | 3083 | 601 |
| Pages | 266 | 128 |