Twelve vs World's fair: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Bildungsromans, New york, Fiction
Twelve
"White Mike is clean. He has never smoked a cigarette in his life. Never had a drink, never sucked down a doobie. But White Mike has become a very good drug dealer, even though it started out as a one-shot deal with his…
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World's fair
Recalls a certain New York City boyhood in the 1930s, through the eyes of the child himself and then him as an adult trying to reconstruct the past.
The verdict
- Readers rate World's fair highest: World's fair 3.9 · Twelve 3.2.
- World's fair has the widest readership — 5055 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Twelve | World's fair | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.2 (4512) | 3.9 (5055) |
| Hardcover | 2.8 (6) | — |
| Google Books | 3.5 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (5) | 4.0 (83) |
Reception
| Twelve | World's fair | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 4512 | 5055 |
| Editions | 10 | 10 |
| Citations | — | 22 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1641 | — |
| Reading it now | 94 | — |
| Written reviews | 370 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 5286 | 447 |
| Pages | 244 | 288 |