Sentences with phrase «better than the novel»

On the other hand, I found the end of the movie to work better than the novel.

Novellas tend to sell less well than novels — readers are consumers, and they like to feel like they're getting more for their money.

Perhaps I liked the title, A Weed Grows in Brooklyn, more than the routine image, but it describes the Brooklyn I know better than the novel can.

Not exact matches

The move is a novel way for the San Mateo, Calif., company to finance the enormous cost of installing panels on thousands of roofs — a typical residential system costs $ 25,000 — while appealing to retail investors who are on the hunt for better rates of return than they can find in savings accounts and government bonds.

The Boring Company will also use novel engineering to tunnel faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else; a feat which seems reasonable to achieve when you have billions of dollars and excellent engineers at your disposal — which, realistically, solves most engineering problems.

Based on the best - selling novel by Ayn Rand, «The Fountainhead» tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect who prefers to struggle rather than compromise his artistic vision.

In 2009, she signed a multiple book deal with Harper Collins; her first novel, L.A. Candy, was on the New York Times Best Seller List for more than a month.

There is a book of poetry in Scripture that is steamier than any Danielle Steele novel and has better one - liners than a Cameron Crowe movie.

I partly agree with tsm but still find nothng more exciting than finding a new SK novel on the bookshelves, he's still the best and Stephan if you're reading this, you must be freaking bored

E. L. James's novel Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best selling book in British history, has sold more than 100 million copies globally, and has spawned two sequels, along with an upcoming film adaptation.

Eve Tushnet's new novel Amends is about how love is better than sheer moral achievement and how, often, we have to journey through humiliation in order to get it.

I have found time and disposition, for example, to occupy myself much more than formerly with universal Geistesgeschichte; on two journeys to Italy to let classical antiquity speak to me as it had never done before; to gain a new relationship with Goethe, among others; to read countless novels, a good many of them from those first - rate producers of the English detective novel: to become a very bad but very passionate horseman, and soon.

My point is not merely that a good novel offers richer characterization and more enduring insight than our usual ideological or therapeutic takes on life.

It is however at least better than the English title of the Japanese novel on which the movie is based: All You Need Is Kill.

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

But Seyler will be the first to tell you that Cash's memoir of life as a sinner, «Man in Black,» is much better than Cash's Christian novel, «Man in White.»

gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.

In THE LAST STATION, we see that Sophya understands her husband's great novels better than his ideological disciples.

By asserting the process - theoretic foundations of our world, we can maintain both science and God and thus escape the materialist malaise - perhaps never better expressed than in this brief excerpt from a work held by many to be the greatest novel ever written:

No one has grasped the magic of Dostoevsky's novels better than the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin.

I love a good novel more than anything, I admit.

Unlike Lewis» novels, the book is not a Christian book, and so the story has less of a «moral» than the books by Lewis, but is still creative, imaginative, and well - told, but did leave me confused in many areas.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

But you don't go to Paladino for sound legal arguments any more you than you'd go to a sports bar hoping to jump into a good conversation about Virginia Woolf's novels.

These are usually well paid (you can expect from # 170 to # 250 per week), and they offer training, novel scientific projects to work on and, more often than not, a shortcut through at least some stages of their graduate recruitment process.

In my opinion, it's better to fund one novel, exciting paper than 10 pedestrian «dotting i's and crossing t's» papers, but such high - risk research seems to go against the prevailing attitude of grant review panels.

The combination was certainly novel, alternating confusingly in the mouth between better than expected and worse than you might think.

In vivo tests on mice then confirmed the presence of more than half of the predicted metabolites, including two novel metabolites, which play a role in the pathways that regulate microbiota metabolism as well as host immune function.

For artificial lighting throughout the museum, conservators chose novel bulbs that use ultraviolet LEDs rather than the standard blue ones, and different blends of light - emitting phosphors that better approximate natural light when operated at the low intensity needed to avoid damaging fragile pigments.

«We demonstrated that quality can be accomplished across the sites, but consider a different approach to the design,» she said, explaining that rather than treating negative symptom patients as one homogenous target, priority should be given to exploring the usefulness of novel mechanisms in separate negative symptom domains to better define the target population and maximize the chance of success before launching large phase III trials.

«Our collaboration with VentiRx is part of a broader programmatic effort to partner with top biotech and pharmaceutical companies to develop novel combinations of treatments that may work better together than each would alone,» said Adam Kolom, managing director of CRI's venture fund.

More than a dozen experimental clinical therapies and vaccines have been developed from research from the Weiner laboratory, including the first Zika vaccine in clinical trials, as well as a novel immunotherapy for HPV - associated cancer and precancer.

Conclusions: We validated (68) Ga - DOTATATE PET as a novel marker of atherosclerotic inflammation and confirmed that (68) Ga - DOTATATE offers superior coronary imaging, excellent macrophage specificity, and better power to discriminate high - risk versus low - risk coronary lesions than -LSB-(18) F] FDG.

This is a «novel finding,» they wrote (pun intended), and good news for book lovers in more ways than one: «The robustness of our findings suggest that reading books may not only introduce some interesting ideas and characters, it may also give more years of reading.»

Given that our modern, grain - based diet is much more physiologically novel than a well - designed, plant - inclusive keto diet would be, ketosis breath might actually be much more «normal» than we imagine.

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You don't need to write a novel, but more information is better than a lack of.

Define yourself concretely - better to say «I am a guitar player in a band, I write novels, or I am a cardiologist» rather than «I am creative or spontaneous.»

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All great authors know that a killer first line is almost more important than the first few pages, and authors put in hours of work just to get Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit

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5 tips to write the best online dating profile, from writer Dave Writing a dating profile is much like writing an article or a novel But it can also be more complicated than that.

Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young - adult fiction.

Compiled from research with more than 20,000 recent graduates, the new edition reveals the Top 100 league table of the most respected and sought - after Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English - language novels published since 1923 — the beginning of TIME

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Based on Martin Booth's novel, «A Very Private Gentleman», it is less a action thriller than a visual paean to Clooney's ability to look so good while never being permitted to smile.

With all deference to Martin Booth, author of the novel «A Very Private Gentleman» on which this is based, some books work better as movies than others and maybe his book wasn't meant to be turned into THIS movie.

It's a shame, though, that «Freedomland» — which Richard Price adapted from his novel of the same name — isn't better than it is.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.