Sentences with phrase «excellent novel»

Brick has narrated an abundance of excellent novels, including The First King of Shannara, The Pharaoh's Secret, Jurassic Park, and In Cold Blood.

Every day, I bring my Kindle Oasis fully stocked with excellent novels.

Embarrassingly enough, I once sold a small stack of rather excellent novels to a guy who bought them with a counterfeit bill.

After delivering so many consistently excellent novels, one might assume a writer could grow complacent.

Write great scenes, and you'll write excellent novels, novellas, and short stories of which you're proud, and which readers love.

Before I start this post, I want to give a plug to Branden Johnson's excellent novel Heaven's Forgotten.

I am reminded of Robert Wilson's excellent novels set in Lisbon, «The Company of Strangers» and «A Small Death in Lisbon».

Confession: after reading Douglas Coupland's excellent novel Microserfs, I made a pilgrimage with some friends to Seattle (well, Redmond, more specifically) to visit the Microsoft campus.

Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of reading three excellent novels that have shaped my thinking as an entrepreneur.

This part of the book was largely inspired by Adah Price, a character in Barbara Kingsolver's excellent novel, The Poisonwood Bible.

I just finished an excellent novel last night by the Canadian writer David Adams Richards, Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down.

Mine will doubtless be unproductive as I am in the middle of an excellent novel, The Women At Pine Creek, by Allis McKay, from which I have had to tear myself in order to finish this post begun on Wednesday.

The Kite Runner is a powerful, riveting, emotional film that is a faithful adaptation from the excellent novel.

Overall, this is a thrilling and emotional adaptation of an excellent novel.

And going blind is exactly what happens to the people of an unnamed city, perhaps even the entire world, in Blindness, the new film by Fernando Meirelles based on Jose Saramago's excellent novel of the same name.

This is an excellent novel to discuss how people cooperating with each other can increase everyone success; however, there are some sexually explicit parts that might make it objectionable in some communities.

This is an excellent novel to discuss whether the rights of poor parents should take priority over the kind of life style a rich family could provide.

Have tissues close at hand - this is an excellent novel that you will remember long after you have finished it (Colleen L).

Handler is no stranger to writing about teenagers (his first novel, The Basic Eight) or love (the excellent novel - in - stories Adverbs).

In Gold Fame Citrus, Watkins follows through on her literary promise with an excellent novel, set in a drought - ridden California in a future that feels alarmingly near.

... (It) is in this excellent novel, whose silhouettes and rags not only make fiction out of history but also reveal the fictions out of which history is made.

An excellent novel, it has tended to be eclipsed by The Outsiders.

So before I read this novel, that is what the title conjured up for me and that certainly doesn't fit with this excellent novel!

While some of the pieces about time travel and the ChronoGuard almost had my eyes glazing over, things I loved in this excellent novel were the book refitter's own language, the fictional Thursdays, the Stupidity Surplus, Schrödinger's Night Fever Principle, the good ship Moral Dilemma on the Hypothetical Ocean, Aornis Hades timeloop prison, books whose genres change, piano exchange, the serial killer pun and the cheese smuggling.

It's one of the reasons I consider this an excellent novel.

I was recently participating in BookBrowse's online book discussion for Vaddey Ratner's excellent novel, Music of the Ghosts, in which the main characters are survivors of the Khmer Rouge.

At the end of my life I'd like to hold one of my books in my hand and know that it is, in every applicable way, an excellent novel.

In doing so she has produced an excellent novel that can be enjoyed both in its own right and in the wider context of Shakespearean scholarship.

An excellent novel.

There're a lot of subjective reasons why an excellent novel wouldn't get traditionally published, but on the other hand, there's no vetting system in place to prevent the very bad self - published books from stinking up the shelves.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is an excellent novel that chronicles the life of Jacob Jankowski and his experiences in the Benzini Circus, one that is second rate at best compared to the Ringling Bros..

Ian McEwan also added a scientific paper to his excellent novel Enduring Love, claiming the novel was based on it — only a year later did he admit that he had also written the «scientific paper» himself, even going as far as submitting it to a journal (where one of the reviewers smelt a rat).

If you want to get in the mood nonetheless, listen to the hauntingly beautiful «Huron Carol», which was apparently written at Sainte - Marie, or get your hands on a copy of Joseph Boyden's excellent novel, The Orenda, which recounts the era from the perspective of Huron, Jesuit, and Iroquois.