Sentences with phrase «attempt at a novel»

Even if one calls into question Whitehead's hasty and exclusive identification of the actual entities of our epoch with the ultimate electromagnetic events, his radical and minutely carried out attempt at a novel conception of entity still retains all its interest.

I like to read and write poetry as well as read in general (book worm here) and am planning my first attempt at a novel...

Speaking to a jam - packed room, Saunders revealed that Lincoln in the Bardo was not his first attempt at a novel.

His first attempt at a novel, titled «The Lure,» was a crime drama centered on the modern - day surfacing of a 110 - carat yellow diamond lost during the French Revolution.

I also wrote it on my lunch break at work, so I only had an hour to write every day,» explained Averill, in a mock self - deprecation of his first attempt at novels.

Not exact matches

It's just too easy to start with a gibe at The Gospel According to the Son, Norman Mailer's new attempt to retell the life of Jesus as a novel narrated by its hero, the Son of God Himself.

It might be helpful at this point to look more fully at a few novels that have attempted a parabolic portrayal of the story of the human experience of coming to belief.

It is not arbitrary, therefore, to see the novel that grew from these two journeys as in part an attempt at self - analysis.

«The addition of osteocalcin as a metabolic regulator may one day lead to novel therapies, but we need to understand much better how it works and how it fits into physiology before such therapies can be attempted in humans,» says endocrinologist Mitch Lazar, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania.

«More attention to and support for promising novel interventions, in addition to new attempts at reaching these populations through conventional interventions that have proven to be effective, are crucial going forward to find new ways to address these disparities.»

WARNING: Any attempts at adapting the contents of this novel to the silver screen may be hazardous to your career.

Katniss» rising popularity as a beacon of hope begins to gnaw at President Snow (Donald Sutherland), who has Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) game his own system in a novel attempt to first discredit her, and then kill her by devising something special for the 75th anniversary of the Hunger Games: The players for the games will be selected from among the survivors of previous games, meaning Katniss and Peeta will once more have to fight to death.

I have been anxiously / impatiently waiting to finally see filmmakers Andy & Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer take on adapting David Mitchell's epic novel Cloud Atlas, which seamlessly blends six different storylines in an attempt to look at the meaning of life and the decisions that impact this universe.

Maybe the premise seemed marginally original at one time, but few outside teen audiences will think Mike Carey's adaptation of his own novel is anything more than another tired attempt to board the zombie bandwagon.

Much like their attempt at spoofing slasher films in the 2004 misfire, «Club Dread,» using the restaurant industry as the backdrop for their latest comedy wasn't exactly a novel idea.

Based on the WWII novel of the same name by James Jones, the story isn't linear but more fragmented and focusing on particular soldiers in the division of «Charlie Company» and the struggle throughout their attempt to gain land against the Japanese at the island of Guadalcanal in 1943.

Although they have frequently employed Western styles, True Grit is the Coen Brothers» (A Serious Man, Burn After Reading) first attempt at the true Western genre, quite traditional in its adaptation of the classic Charles Portis story, a novel originally published in the «Saturday Evening Post» in 1968, more in the vein of its creation than the comedy, thrills, and snark we've come to associate with their style.

Despite the uptick in remakes, it's extremely difficult to identify a few dozen great ones — particularly when you exclude movies like The Thing, which represent the second attempt at adapting a novel — and yet we can't deny that some of the greatest films ever made wouldn't have been possible without slapping a new paint job on an old chassis.

Pakula had better luck with his 1990 adaptation of a Scott Turow novel, Presumed Innocent, which seemed more an indictment of the previous decade's facility with morality than these later attempts at grasping the fascination we developed as a culture in 1994 for the O.J. Simpson trial.

James is attempting to write his novel now that life on TV is no longer an option, and some sort of mental breakdown is causing him to do things like destroy display cases at a drugstore and steal pocketfuls of shaving cream.

Again, we have more characters than the film really needs — I swear at least five of the dwarfs get a single line each — and the screenplay strays outside the original source material in an attempt to paint a broader picture than Tolkein's initial fairy tale - like novel.

Based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road follows a college professor (Joaquin Phoenix's Ethan) as he attempts to cope with the death of his young son at the hands of a hit - and - run driver (Mark Ruffalo's Dwight).

McAdams isn't necessarily given much to do — they rarely are — and this subversion of the norm doesn't really end up going anywhere novel, but it is a nice fleeting attempt at freshness in a genre that's all about quick pickling.

Based on the novel Don't Point that That Thing at Me» by Kyril Bongfiglio, its efforts at whimsy fall flat, while its attempts to attain the quirky begin and end with the waxy curls of Johnny Depp's... Read More»

Attempts at comic relief and a few scares come off as too goofy to work effectively, making this a film only of interest for drive - in cinema regulars, Haim's staunchest of fans, and those who are insatiably curious after reading the Koontz novel.

(This is, after all, an author who, in his 1997 novel Mason and Dixon, managed to compose a genuinely profound hymn to the historical «arts of the quidnunc» — i.e., of the busybody — that doubled as an elaborate, ironic parody of a long - defunct literary style's attempts at profundity.)

Based on the novel by Fred Zackel, made for NBC by O.J.'s production house, Cocaine and Blue Eyes marks an attempt at a modern noir private investigator flick, complete with voice over narration, damsels in distress, and dialogue that wouldn't sound foreign if Humphrey Bogart had said them 50 years before.

What the script by Elliott and Rossio (Dead Man's Chest, Shrek), who very loosely rework a wholly unrelated pirate novel («On Stranger Tides», naturally) from 1987 by Tim Powers, fills the time up with is a tedious romance between a goodly cleric named Philip (Clafin, United) and a sultry mermaid dubbed Serena (Berges - Frisbey, Meet the Elizabethz), the attempted extraction of one of her mythical tears, and some mumbo jumbo about maps and silver chalices from Ponce de Leon's ship that must be used in just the right way in order to effect the desired outcome at the Fountain.

In the big screen adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel, the 24 - year - old actress plays Florence, a young English woman whose disastrous attempt at intimacy with her husband on their wedding night impacts on their marriage.

The adaptation has been in various stages of development for nearly ten years, and brave is the production team attempting to corral King's parallel universes, skipping timelines and characters drawn heavily from King's other novels... including, at one point, King himself.

At least a half dozen students have entered Walden determined to write a novel, and the teachers have encouraged them; though none has finished more than a chapter or two, Schlein says, «to attempt to do something grand and fail — that's great learning.»

I even attempted and failed at writing one in an early novel.

Against the background of the political upheaval and violence in Italy during the seventies, Elena details significant incidents in her own life: the mixed reception to her novel, her marriage, children, her further attempts at writing, her encounters with her dear friend, Lila and with the man she has always loved, Nino Sarratore.

Topics like intersectionality and sex positivity are also broached, though, at times the novel falls to the White Feminism tropes it attempts to evade.

The 2 books that I'm working on are my first attempts at writing a novel.

The nameless 12 - year - old narrator of Lin's harsh realist novel schemes to lose his virginity in an inchoate attempt to prove himself to himself when everything else at the run - down motel owned by his immigrant Taiwanese parents is utterly demoralizing.

The reason I eventually tried my hand at fiction was because I got tired of waiting for the next Clancy or Brooks novel to come out so I attempted to write stories that would fill in the gaps between their books.

In 2010, I used the story as the basis for my first attempt at the NaNoWriMo (Write a novel in a month).

He was interested in literature from a young age, even attempting at the age of twelve to write a novel entitled The Mercenary, a fantasy story about a killer's unlikely search for love.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

For Sarah Renee, 14 - year - old author of three young adult / middle grade novels, her attempts at publishing were met with less than an enthusiastic response due to the fact that her status as a minor made the legal ramifications of publishing a higher hurdle to overcome than most authors face.

The Pandigital Novel makes a valiant attempt at being a value - priced, full - color, Android - based e-reader that also doubles as a general - use tablet.

Those were the uninspiring first lines of my doomed, never - to - be-published first attempt at a historical romance novel.

Whether this is your first attempt at writing a novel or a way to put in words the next story in your head, using the momentum of thousands of others just like you can help you realize this goal.

The Pandigital Novel Personal eReader is Pandigital's first attempt at a monochrome ebook reader instead of a ereader / tablet hybrid.

The Pandigital Novel Personal eReader is Pandigital's second ebook reader, and is their first attempt at an electronic paper ereader.

The reality was actually much less so (drinking cheap vodka and imitation Red Bull in a converted stables building with a bunch of people I'd only just met, and then picking my way through a mass of bodies in various states of consciousness in an attempt to secure a bed at around 4 am) but it was still a fun and novel way start to 2014.

Visual novels are fantastic when done right, but it's glaringly obvious that it was an attempt at an «easy out» for the developer when poorly executed.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

Brandon compares a lay reading of climate science to an attempt to read a Jane Austen novel at face value.