Anne of Avonlea vs The Adventures of Tintin: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Anne of Avonlea
“A TALL, SLIM girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.”
The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to…
1 film adaptation
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The Adventures of Tintin
“For his first trip, what seemed the most important to me—at the time—was this country from which often terrifying and always extremely contradictory echoes were reaching us: Soviet Russia.” –HergéJanuary 10th, 1929.…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Anne of Avonlea highest: Anne of Avonlea 4.2 · The Adventures of Tintin 4.0.
- The Adventures of Tintin is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 4 for Anne of Avonlea.
- Anne of Avonlea has the widest readership — 234768 ratings behind its score.
- The Adventures of Tintin runs the darker storyline; Anne of Avonlea stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
The Adventures of Tintin
≈ 1h vs 4h for Anne of Avonlea
New to the genre?
The Adventures of Tintin
Easy vs Challenging for Anne of Avonlea
In the mood for something dark?
The Adventures of Tintin
a darker storyline than Anne of Avonlea
Want something lighter?
Anne of Avonlea
an easier tone than The Adventures of Tintin
Scores by source
| Anne of Avonlea | The Adventures of Tintin | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (234768) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (231) | 4.0 (4) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (8) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1139) | 4.0 (111) |
Reception
| Anne of Avonlea | The Adventures of Tintin | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 234768 | 111 |
| Editions | 813 | 12 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 69510 | — |
| Reading it now | 8340 | — |
| Written reviews | 13019 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 6009 | 45340 |
| Pages | 244 | 62 |