The City Boy vs The Morning Watch: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Books, Classic, Stories, Adult, Fiction
The City Boy
'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the…
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The Morning Watch
The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal boarding school (based on Agee's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Morning Watch is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for The City Boy.
- The Morning Watch has the widest readership — 227 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The City Boy | The Morning Watch | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.6 (227) |
Reception
| The City Boy | The Morning Watch | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1 | 227 |
| Editions | 25 | 12 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 328 |
| Reading it now | — | 4 |
| Written reviews | — | 36 |
| Wikipedia attention | 231 | 160 |
| Pages | 321 | 120 |