The Bride of Lammermoor vs The Hit Charade: Which Should You Read?

The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott · 1800 ★★★★☆ 3.7 320 pages · ≈ 5 h 56 m · Challenging

This new edition of The Bride of Lammermoor restores the action to 1703, before the Union of Scotland and England in 1707 rather than after it, which is where Scott's revisions of 1830 placed it. At last the sense of…

The Hit Charade Tyler Gray · 2008 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 320 pages · ≈ 5 h 56 m · Moderate

Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and NSYNC and…