Violin vs What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Violin
“HE CAME before the day Karl died.”
Violin, released October 15, 1997, is Anne Rice's richly alluring new ghost novel that moves across the centuries to tell the story of three charismatic figures wrapped in music. A return to the romanticism of her first…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and…
The verdict
- Readers rate What We Talk About When We Talk About Love highest: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 4.0 · Violin 3.4.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Violin.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love has the widest readership — 81529 ratings behind its score.
- Violin runs the darker storyline; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
≈ 2h vs 5h for Violin
Want the crowd-tested pick?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
81529 ratings vs 20228 for Violin
Just want the better-reviewed one?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
4.0 vs 3.4 from readers
In the mood for something dark?
Violin
a darker storyline than What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Want something lighter?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
an easier tone than Violin
Scores by source
| Violin | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.4 (20228) | 4.0 (81529) |
| Hardcover | 3.3 (33) | 4.0 (145) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (12) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (27) | 4.0 (77) |
Reception
| Violin | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 20228 | 81529 |
| Editions | 31 | 33 |
| Citations | — | 108 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 9536 | 132609 |
| Reading it now | 429 | 4800 |
| Written reviews | 767 | 8028 |
| Wikipedia attention | 871 | 6054 |
| Pages | 289 | 159 |