Sentences with phrase «book as a thriller»

You might think of your book as a thriller.

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Jurgen Klopp saluted his Liverpool heroes as they survived a semi-final thriller against Roma to book a Champions League final showdown with Real Madrid.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

He's so far knocked out 10 legal thriller books, which were translated into more than 20 languages and osmosed into movies such as «Presumed Innocent» and «The Burden of Proof.»

As for the other activities: Books may relax a busy mind (as long as they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake modAs for the other activities: Books may relax a busy mind (as long as they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake modas long as they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake modas they're not thrillers), but the light from the TV can keep your body in awake mode.

Note to viewers tired of being psychologically hammered by (even well made) exploitative thrillers that ask one to accept superstition as reality: Just remember the sarcastic Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, reacting to uncanny evidence of demonic forces afoot in the public library: «No human being would stack books like that!»

In contrast to the tonally exploitative, post-9 / 11 catastrophe smut of the Avengers tentpoles, the former plays as a clever espionage thriller built on political intrigue, disguised as a comic book movie.

As the movie wears on, the plot points become increasingly far - fetched, and what started out as a moody if by - the - book thriller becomes increasingly sillAs the movie wears on, the plot points become increasingly far - fetched, and what started out as a moody if by - the - book thriller becomes increasingly sillas a moody if by - the - book thriller becomes increasingly silly.

Sharon Stone, the Bette Davis of the Blockbuster - era erotic thrillers, might be a surprising face to see hanging around the Prestige TV neighborhood, But that just adds to the eerie atmosphere, especially since she's excellent as Olivia Lake, a brittle and jaded author of children's books.

As depicted throughout the tense action thriller, doing things by the book is obviously the moral high route, but what is it actually accomplishing compared to more clandestine and nefarious methods, and more importantly, are crucial results worth becoming a monster for?

Michael Crichton's 1969 sci fi - thriller novel of the same name serves as the basis of this film, which jumped into production not long after the book's release.

The Amazon drama is described as a high - concept thriller and coming - of - age drama which follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off - book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

It would be a crime to spoil the surprises in a plot that owes as much to 1970s conspiracy thrillers as comic books.

A trailer has been released for the upcoming thriller Manhattan Night, which you can view below along with the poster for the film... The new thriller is based on the acclaimed New York Times Notable Book of the Year Manhattan Nocturne by author Colin Harrison, and stars Adrien Brody (Third Person, The Pianist) as «a -LSB-...]

The book is listed as a thriller and I can see this working since Affleck used a lot of thriller type elements in his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone a couple years ago and I loved that movie.

Guillermo del Toro's haunted house thriller Crimson Peak has been given a Haunted Peak production name as it books into Pinewood...

Entertaining thriller that will keep you guessing - as long as you haven't read the book, of course.

Then, next year brings Chris Evans» Cap back for a story ripped from Ed Brubaker's comic book run about Bucky (Sebastian Stan) recovered, resurrected, brainwashed and augmented into lethal killer Winter Soldier for what is promised as a blend of spy thriller and World War II hero Steve Rogers continuing to find his place in the modern world.

Director David Fincher subsequently cast her as the lead, Lisbeth Salander, in his thriller remake, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium book series.

Becoming a professional assassin as easy as pie when your dad was one, as James McAvoy's character discovers in this fun thriller starring Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, and based on the comic book miniseries by Mark Millar.

WHY: Robert De Niro may be choosing better scripts these days, but he's not immune to appearing in bad movies, as evidenced in this direct - to - video thriller that plays like a mix between «Speed» and «John Q.» Director Scott Mann and writer Stephen Cyrus Sepher have created an incredibly predictable crime flick that uses just about every cliché in the book, from the desperate father trying to save his child, to the villain with a crisis of conscience.

She's currently lensing the highly anticipated sequel, «Sin City: A Dame To Kill For,» she leads Danny Boyle «s spring thriller «Trance» (more on that in a second) and now she's booking a gig in a very promising drama as well.

Under the renewal of their deal, IMAX will be showcasing the previously announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and this December's In the Heart of the Sea, as well as a slew of upcoming movies like Guy Ritchie's spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ritchie's currently filming King Arthur movie, David Yates's 2016 adventure film Tarzan, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins, the thriller Geostorm, and more.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice actress discusses her role as an alien warrior in the new sci - fi thriller, based on the popular book series.

Coming up is a reunion with Riseborough in James Marsh «s acclaimed Sundance thriller «Shadow Dancer» and as one of the villains in comic book tale «Dredd.»

Anthony Franciosa stars as Peter Neal, a best - selling thriller novelist whose promotional tour in Italy takes a terrible turn when a mysterious killer recreates the brutal murders from his book with real life victims.

Admittedly, it all gets a bit by - the - book as the inevitable dust - up approaches, but with these kinds of standard - plot thrillers, it's not so much what you do as how you do it.

Since then he's assembled an award - winning and critically acclaimed resume with the 1995 crime - thriller classic, The Usual Suspects, which won Academy Awards for best original screenplay and best supporting actor, as well as the seminal comic - book films X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003).

It seems like forever since we've seen Lupita Nyong» o since her Oscar - winning debut performance in 12 Years a Slave in 2013 and that's probably because her only screen appearances since then have been voice work in The Jungle Book and Star Wars: The Force Awakens and a brief and forgettable turn as a flight attendant in the Liam Neeson thriller...

Oddly, for a gory R - rated thriller, the producers of this film adaptation (Roger Corman is one of them) decide to changed the adult male protagonist from the book into a young teenager, playing quite often as a family film when not in terror mode.

We're almost as excited by Screen «s news that the busiest writer alive, Jack Thorne (one of our Screenwriters On The Rise picks this year), and director Tom Harper, who were behind the excellent, woefully under - seen «Scouting Book For Boys» a few years back, are getting back together, for a political thriller called «War Book.»

A couple of trailers today, starting with Alexandros Avranas» thriller «Dark Crimes» starring Jim Carrey as a cop who finds similarities between an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a book by famed writer Krystov Kozlow (Martin Csokas)...

My theory is that people don't read his books for the rather rudimentary, step - by - step, point - to - point thriller elements that form the backbone of the story so much as for learning a little bits of history, philosophy, and even fantasy elements that reside above the surface, many of them expounded upon at length in between the plot points.

Every so often a certain film genre will suddenly begin to pick up speed without much warning, whether that be a huge increase like with the Marvel and DC comic book universes or more low - key ones such as political and cyber thrillers.

He's back in the chair for this drama - thriller starring Amy Adams as a remarried art gallery owner whose ex-husband's violent new book begins to haunt her.

Slightly flat as well, although it moves at a good clip, Nicholas Jarecki's debut feature, Arbitrage, is a Wall Street thriller that has Richard Gere as a billionaire hedge fund manager who's trying to sell his company before the prospective buyer discovers he's cooked the books.

(I've written several such books that, though not as engaging as a crackling good spy thriller, really aren't intimidating.)

Additionally, Mr. Chavous is an accomplished author, having published four books, including Serving Our Children: Charter Schools and the Reform of American Public Education; Voices of Determination: Children that Defy the Odds; and Building a Learning Culture in America, as well as his first novel, The Plan, a political thriller.

The book is a Romantica and can best be described as a thriller with added spice.

One of the best I've found for thrillers being Epic Kindle Giveaway (I follow it on Twitter at @eBookSwag), as well as The Digital Inkspot, and Digital Book Today.

As an agent, she represents contemporary romance, thriller, adventure, paranormal / urban fantasy, science fiction, combinations of the genres listed, middle grade (fantasy, adventure, science fiction), picture books (special stories that deliver a subtle, non-didactic message; illustrations not needed), self - help, science nonfiction, and business books.

She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

For example, The Accusers is probably best described as a courtroom thriller but other books in the series have been written in the style of police procedurals, classic whodunnits and thriller - style adventures.

Fly Pie, a thriller in which a group of street children get involved in a baby kidnap, provided a clear signpost to the road that Burgess was travelling; the road that would lead to Junk, Bloodtide and Lady: My Life as a Bitch (Described by The Guardian as»... a book about a teenage girl who embarks on a rampant sexual odyssey on the eve of her GCSEs.»)

And Sedgewick's book is at least as much of a thriller and a fast - paced mystery as it is a book about a visually impaired teen.

You offer this customer an ebook version of the new author's book as she's checking out, based on a «comp,» which McCarthy defines as the titles that are deemed comparable to a particular publication — such as the psychological thrillers authors your «customer» is always buying.

I don't want to say too much about this book, as I do not what to spoil it for anyone but if you like psychological thrillers with a good dose of mystery I would advise you to pick up this book.

But, as a crime and thriller writer myself, I found enough examples from other genres to allow me to recognise the help in creating characters this book and worksheets provide.

While not as popular as the romance genre, self - published mystery, thriller, and crime books still sell extremely well.