Operation Shylock vs The Hunt for Red October: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Intelligence service in fiction, Intelligence service, Spy Fiction, Fiction
Operation Shylock
"One of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius." -The New York Review of Books"A brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -The Nation"The…
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The Hunt for Red October
Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision...the Red October is heading west.The Americans want her.The Russians want her back.And the most incredible chase in history is…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The Hunt for Red October highest: The Hunt for Red October 4.1 · Operation Shylock 3.7.
- The Hunt for Red October has the widest readership — 392729 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Operation Shylock | The Hunt for Red October | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (392729) |
| Hardcover | 3.2 (2) | 4.1 (591) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (1892) |
Reception
| Operation Shylock | The Hunt for Red October | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2 | 392729 |
| Editions | 12 | 63 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 110287 |
| Reading it now | — | 9649 |
| Written reviews | — | 5012 |
| Wikipedia attention | 1636 | 19069 |
| Pages | 398 | 479 |