Blind Faith vs The onion field: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Blind Faith Blind Faith Joe McGinniss · 1981 ★★★★☆ 3.7 448 pages · ≈ 8 h 18 m · Moderate

The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his…

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Cover of The onion field The onion field Joseph Wambaugh · 1973 ★★★★☆ 4.1 445 pages · ≈ 8 h 14 m · Moderate
“The night in the onion field was a Saturday night.”

Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Blind FaithThe onion field
Goodreads 3.7 (7479) 4.1 (21668)
Hardcover 3.9 (8) 3.6 (17)
Google Books — 5.0 (3)
Apple Books 4.0 (131) 4.0 (84)

Reception

Blind FaithThe onion field
Ratings 7479 21668
Editions 7 10
Citations — 9
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 3574 12007
Reading it now 319 496
Written reviews 199 503
Wikipedia attention 400 5846
Pages 448 445

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