Bloodsucking Fiends vs Spellsinger: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Bloodsucking Fiends Bloodsucking Fiends Christopher Moore · 1995 ★★★★☆ 4.2 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Moderate
“Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below.”
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At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of…

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Cover of Spellsinger Spellsinger Alan Dean Foster · 1981 ★★★★☆ 3.9 348 pages · ≈ 6 h 27 m · Moderate
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Spellsinger #1 “Among sentient animals and humans, hard-headed and hard-shelled wizard Clothahump searches across dimensions for a wizard to defeat looming armies of Plated Folk. Jonathan-Thomas Meriweather, part-time…

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The verdict

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Scores by source

Bloodsucking FiendsSpellsinger
Hardcover 3.7 (143) 3.6 (42)
Google Books 4.0 (1) 5.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.5 (217) 4.5 (30)
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Reception

Bloodsucking FiendsSpellsinger
Ratings 217 42
Editions 6 17
Film adaptations 1 1
Wikipedia attention 446 886
Pages 304 348
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Questions readers ask

Which is rated higher: Bloodsucking Fiends or Spellsinger?

Bloodsucking Fiends has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Bloodsucking Fiends 4.2/5, Spellsinger 3.9/5).

Which is shorter to read: Bloodsucking Fiends or Spellsinger?

Bloodsucking Fiends is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Bloodsucking Fiends (304 pages, ≈ 5 h 38 m); Spellsinger (348 pages, ≈ 6 h 27 m).

Which is harder to read: Bloodsucking Fiends or Spellsinger?

Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Bloodsucking Fiends: Moderate; Spellsinger: Moderate.

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