Sentences with word «doorstopper»

That's the other advantage of indie publishing: you don't have to follow the guidelines (the ever - shifting guidelines, might I add) of the trads, whether it is a demand for massive doorstopper fantasy novels, or having to inject vampires / zombies / whatever the flavor of the month into your story, or even making sure the characters are «diverse enough.»

There's also a removable doorstopper for use at the top of the stairs to prevent the gate from opening towards the staircase.

I have three doorstopper novels (444 pages, 466 pages, and 490 pages).

Everyone knows that good stories are built on good characters, whether they're slice - of - life novellas or elaborately plotted doorstoppers.

A new book from Bill Bryson is always a cause for excitement, and this beautiful doorstopper truly delivers.

(This was before Harry Potter, Twilight and the popularity of doorstoppers aimed at tweens.)

Are you ready to dive into a vast world of magic and adventure a lá George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, but a bit hesitant to pick up an 800 - page doorstopper with a hefty roster of characters to keep track of?

I always hoped the shipping error completed and somebody got an unexpected doorstopper's worth of angst and talking horses as well.)

Ask in advance if your bedroom door has a lock and bring your own alarm doorstopper.

While critically acclaimed by many academics, Shand - Tucci's doorstopper was so stuffed with digressive social commentary and bouts of architectural psychoanalysis that Ralph Adams Cram and his buildings often recede into the background.

And though Tom Stoppard, like Knightley, scored a Satellite nom for his Adapted Screenplay, it would seem that translating Tolstoy's doorstopper, in a fashion that admittedly came across as somewhat superficial, isn't the feat with which to impress the powers that be this year.

James Ponsoldt's film is targeted to a movie audience that appreciates good talk of the a kind that the French are famous for, and credit must be given to Donald Margulies for adapting journalist David Lipsky's book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, the title of which is on its way to becoming a doorstopper in itself.

One is to use as a doorstopper as each book is over one thousand pages.

«It's much easier to shove a doorstopper onto your Kindle.»

«Sci - fi and fantasy books tend to be doorstoppers,» she explained.

The Savages author is back with a doorstopper of a sequel to The Power of the Dog, and here he continues his saga of the Mexican drug trade and its inseparable ties to the demand from U.S..

I have this theory that some of those doorstoppers that intimidate me might be easier to tackle in ebook form in that every time I read I won't be confronted with the heft of all those pages ahead.

This is a doorstopper of a science fiction anthology from the 1980s that I picked up on the cheap years ago, on the off chance that I might want to read it one day.

You know, when I'm not raising kids, working full time, working on my Masters» thesis, or finishing up my 180,000 word count beast of a doorstopper fantasy manuscript.

Uber has just announced ELEVATE, with a doorstopper of a 98 page document, Fast - Forwarding to a Future of On - Demand Urban Air Transportation, that lays out their plans for domination of the skies.