What We Talk About When We Talk About Love vs Winter Dreams: Which Should You Read?

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver · 1981 ★★★★☆ 4.0 159 pages · ≈ 2 h 57 m · Moderate

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…

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Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 ★★★★☆ 3.7 48 pages · ≈ 53 min · Moderate

"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest…

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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 · Winter Dreams 3.7.
Winter Dreams is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 2 for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love has the widest readership — 81529 ratings behind its score.

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How to choose

Want a one-evening read? Winter Dreams ≈ 1h vs 2h for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Want the crowd-tested pick? What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 81529 ratings vs 3534 for Winter Dreams

Scores by source

	What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	Winter Dreams
Goodreads	4.0 (81529)	3.7 (3534)
Hardcover	4.0 (145)	4.5 (7)
Google Books	4.0 (1)	—
Apple Books	4.0 (77)	—
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Reception

	What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	Winter Dreams
Ratings	81529	3534
Editions	33	120
Citations	108	—
Film adaptations	1	1
Want to read	132609	2246
Reading it now	4800	76
Written reviews	8028	342
Wikipedia attention	6054	699
Pages	159	48
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Questions readers ask

Which is rated higher: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love or Winter Dreams?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love has the higher combined reader rating across sources (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 4.0/5, Winter Dreams 3.7/5).

Which is shorter to read: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love or Winter Dreams?

Winter Dreams is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Winter Dreams (48 pages, ≈ 53 min); What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (159 pages, ≈ 2 h 57 m).

Which is harder to read: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love or Winter Dreams?

Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Moderate; Winter Dreams: Moderate.