Sentences with phrase «ending than the novel»

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Recent novels by evangelical leaders say more about popular American Christianity than about the end times.

Its final meaning, therefore, can not be determined from its own limited perspective any more than we can determine the meaning of the early episodes of a novel without reading it to the end.

But rather than end the novel on this ambiguous note, Greene uses a somewhat awkward device to resolve the ambiguity.

By the end of the novel, after more than 500 pages of calumny against the Catholic Church, the reader learns that «both the Vatican and Opus Dei... [turn] out to be completely innocent» (559).

What's the Deal: More character study than action movie, this adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is instead concerned with the inner workings of its amoral antihero, whom we witness do very bad things at film's start that haunt him until the very end.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House gets the full effects - laden, end - of - the - century treatment from action director De Bont (Speed, Twister), which essentially means more computer - generated phantasms and a much, much louder audio track than Robert Wise's superlative 1963 version.

The pain that Deadpool experiences from his loss is so great that it ends up literally ripping him in half, and punishes his mutant body in more than a few novel, funny, and satisfyingly graphic ways.

Still, better to have reached those lofty heights at all than to stand as average to slightly above average entertainment that many similarly - themed and far less profitable YA novel adaptations have ended up as.

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

Considerably more is made of the film's debt to John Ford, specifically The Searchers (a debt underscored in an alternate ending that apes its famous bookend shots), than to the graphic novel series on which Goodman's script is allegedly based, and we learn that the phrase «brutal functionism» was coined to describe the movie's props, including a blade fashioned from Damascus steel that took 100 hours to sculpt for a few seconds of screentime.

It's loaded with delightful twists, the main one perhaps guessed by the most prescient members of the audience, though if you read the Welsh novel «Fingersmith,» which features even more detail than the movie, you will of course know the dramatic ending.

Lili Elbe is a technical accomplishment rather than a flesh - and - blood person, a pure image, an artwork, emphatically a girl rather than a woman, who ends the film resembling nothing more than one of those fragile beauties who die of tuberculosis in 19th century novels.

The end result is a passable thriller that could (and should) have been so much better, with the less - than - novel premise, unfortunately, negatively coloring everything that transpires over the course of the film's slightly overlong running time.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

But I still struggle to discern a reasonable artistic argument for having Hobbs hit a game winning home run at the end of The Natural rather than deliberately strike out as he does in Bernard Malamud's novel.

In the opening section of The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst jumps into the milieu of some of the greatest novels in English, the end of the dress - for - dinner era that came just before World War I. His fine and elegant writing seems to be more than an homage to novels such as Brideshead Revisited or Howard's End; the precision of his language allows Hollinghurst to tease out what his characters are actually thinking even as what comes out of their mouths is the proper, dining - room appropriate thing to send of the dress - for - dinner era that came just before World War I. His fine and elegant writing seems to be more than an homage to novels such as Brideshead Revisited or Howard's End; the precision of his language allows Hollinghurst to tease out what his characters are actually thinking even as what comes out of their mouths is the proper, dining - room appropriate thing to sEnd; the precision of his language allows Hollinghurst to tease out what his characters are actually thinking even as what comes out of their mouths is the proper, dining - room appropriate thing to say.

Think of the rush you get from racing to the end of an up - all - night novel — except there are seventeen of these, each less than ten pages long.

I wrote a novel that ended up getting more than half request for the full ms, and then... nothing and uhm and errr and we're still deciding.

The Last Empress, which opens where Empress Orchid ends, lacks the compelling rags - to - riches / love story elements of Empress Orchid and tends to read like a series of vignettes not a continuous novel - probably the result of trying to squeeze nearly half a century of turbulent history into less than 300 pages.

Michelle Hoover's The Quickening covers roughly the same timeframe and space as Jane Smiley's Some Luck: from the beginning of World War I (rather than its end in Smiley's novel) to 1950, on neighboring farms in the upper Midwest.

My recent novel, Delirium, may have a smaller audience than a happy - ending - romance but it's what I am drawn to write.

Captured by death squadrons, they somehow manage to escape... In this remarkable novel, Betancourt, an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle, returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End.

The Goldfinch may have won Donna Tartt the Pulitzer, praised by judges as a novel which «stimulates the mind and touches the heart», but the acclaimed title's 800 - odd pages appear to have intimidated British readers, with less than half of those who downloaded it from e-bookseller Kobo making it to the end.

He's the New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End, More Happy Than Not, and History Is All You Left Me, and all his novels have received multiple starred reviews.

Most writers are lucky to get to the end of a novel with anything more than a gut sense of what they did.

Find out what happens next as we come close to the end of the reading of the crime novel, Bigger Than Jesus by Robert Chazz Chute.

Burd's first novel has some of the trappings of the traditional coming - out - while - coming - of - age story, and his ending seems more willful than artful.

So I stayed with the book, and was engaged in how the various storylines played out, that is, until I got to the end: I am afraid that the novel just stopped rather than ended when it came to the resolution of some of the plotlines.

More than ever, people need regular doses of the kind of hope, optimism and happy endings that they get from romance novels.

How does someone who never imagined releasing anything other than a traditionally published novel end up self - publishing an interactive collection of poetry, exclusively for the iPad?

Be careful not to break the tone or pacing of the novel too much or the epilogue will end up sounding like the intro of a new story rather than the closing of the current one.

There's plenty of introductory freebies on offer as well as host of public domain novels to download and the big clear screen makes it a pleasure to use as a mini ebook reader and certainly significantly better than a smaller smartphone size even if you do still end up turning pages a little too often.

Although this might give you a headache to calculate how much you will end up paying to read a book, in practice, a 175 - page novel may only cost less than $ 1 which is still in the acceptable price range for eBook that most Chinese readers are willing to spend according to Tech in Asia.

I wasn't expecting to see quite the volume of cut - scenes that the game ended up having, and the game feels more like a fully - animated visual novel with RPG side - quests than an actual RPG.

Playing as some other characters, more like a short story with multiple endings than a full sized light novel, I think will add a lot of color and fun to the game as well.

• Streamlined month - end accounts closing by introducing a novel system which was considered 50 % more efficacious than the previous one.