Silver Wedding vs The man from Skibbereen: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Irish fiction, Irish, Fiction
Silver Wedding
As occasion to celebrate, when Desmond and Deirdre Doyle must gather family and friends around them in remembrance of the twenty-five years of marriage they've shared. A moment of reckoning as an uneasy couple is forced…
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The man from Skibbereen
Crispin Mayo was a stranger to the law of the gun. He had come West from Ireland to seek his fortune-one man with nothing but his fists to protect him. Was he tough enough to tangle with a cut-throat band of renegades?…
The verdict
- Readers rate The man from Skibbereen highest: The man from Skibbereen 4.4 · Silver Wedding 3.7.
- Silver Wedding has the widest readership — 13026 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Silver Wedding | The man from Skibbereen | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (13026) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (2) | 4.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (133) | 4.5 (96) |
Reception
| Silver Wedding | The man from Skibbereen | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 13026 | 96 |
| Editions | 34 | 22 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 2747 | — |
| Reading it now | 833 | — |
| Written reviews | 412 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 155 | — |
| Pages | 283 | 184 |