Play It as It Lays vs Take two: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Hollywood, Motion picture industry, Fiction
Play It as It Lays
Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its…
1 film adaptation
vs
Take two
Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison have completed their first feature film, and Hollywood is buzzing with the news. In the wake of that excitement, the producers acquire rights to a novel that has all the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Play It as It Lays has the widest readership — 99160 ratings behind its score.
- Play It as It Lays runs the darker storyline; Take two stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Play It as It Lays | Take two | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (99160) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (109) | 3.3 (3) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (20) | 4.5 (17) |
Reception
| Play It as It Lays | Take two | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 99160 | 17 |
| Editions | 37 | 14 |
| Citations | 33 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 222289 | — |
| Reading it now | 4746 | — |
| Written reviews | 13243 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 7096 | — |
| Pages | 213 | 320 |