Se questo è un uomo vs The Boys from Brazil: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Concentration Camps, Holocaust, World War II
Se questo è un uomo
This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red…
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The Boys from Brazil
“Early one evening in September of 1974 a small twin-engine plane, silver and black, sailed down onto a secondary runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport, and slowing, turned aside and taxied to a hangar where a limousine stood waiting.”
A Group of Obscure Men Ninety-four civil servants. All aged Sixty-five. Harmless men. In different countries. All of them marked for death. Unknowing Guardians of a Monster Their deaths will be but the…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Se questo è un uomo highest: Se questo è un uomo 4.5 · The Boys from Brazil 3.9.
- Se questo è un uomo has the widest readership — 23045 ratings behind its score.
- Se questo è un uomo runs the darker storyline; The Boys from Brazil stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Se questo è un uomo | The Boys from Brazil | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.5 (23045) | — |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | 3.9 (57) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (14) |
Reception
| Se questo è un uomo | The Boys from Brazil | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 23045 | 57 |
| Editions | 112 | 48 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 91844 | — |
| Reading it now | 1327 | — |
| Written reviews | 4736 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 3716 | 4956 |
| Pages | 216 | 286 |