Sentences with phrase «excellent novel microserfs»

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.

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.

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).

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..

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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.

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.

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.

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

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!

... (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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Riffing on Miller's article, Maddie Crum's Huffington Post article, «An Ode to Unaccelerated Reading» lists ten excellent novels well worth their page count, and I'm sure we all have a beloved epic tome or two weighing down our bookshelves.

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.

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

Many excellent novels do not find publishers and there are many promising authors out there whose work deserves to be published and read.

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Not only do figures like Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama credit fiction with expanding their outlook and exercising their minds, but science even suggests that a great novel can boost empathy, a hallmark of excellent leaders.

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.

Although the press kit does not mention it, an excellent book on the events that served as the basis for Moore's novel was published in 1996: Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs, edited by Richard J. Golsan (University Press of New England).

I've never read a novel in which I felt so many excellent opportunities were lost.

(Last year, he actually published a novel called Wolf In White Van, and it's 100 % excellent.)

The Word for Word Bible Comic promises to be an excellent graphic novel covering the entire Bible, violence, sex, and all... In our visually - oriented culture, this sounds like a great project!

In Christopher Beha's excellent debut novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder?

It is an historical novel, excellent in its plot and its delineation of the chief characters, probably written as an explanation of the festival of Purim.

The Graphic Classroom founder, Chris Wilson, has made it his mission to seek out excellent graphic novels covering a wide range of subjects and styles and get them into the public education system here in the U.S.

Considering parenting a spiritual experience is a novel idea, and the book provides excellent explanations to this idea.

Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.

Furthermore, these mice would provide an excellent model to test novel therapies aimed at preventing metastasis.

«This experimental system provides an excellent platform to pursue a plethora of exotic physics and novel device applications predicted for topological insulators,» Chen said.

«Being highly active against drug - resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, this novel class of drugs provides us with an excellent opportunity to treat tuberculosis.»

The optimized composition has facilitated excellent oxygen reduction reaction and the novel structure has created pore channels that dramatically enhance oxygen ion diffusion and surface oxygen exchange while maintaining excellent compatibility and stability under operating conditions.

The staff in the internationally recognised division are supported by excellent facilities in cell and tissue culture, molecular biology, novel biomaterials development and testing, physical, biological and mechanical characterisation and state - of - the - art imaging facilities, including spectroscopy, multi-photon microscopy and endoscopy.

The experts stated that the proposal described an excellent, well planned, novel and feasible research project led by a very well - qualified and knowledgeable applicant.

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.

The institute has excellent facilities and teams of professionals dedicated to the development of innovative biomedical devices and products, evaluation of medical devices to global specifications, training in novel medical specialties and research in medical and public health areas of social relevance.

Scandal Sheet was based on a novel by former newspaperman Samuel Fuller, an excellent film director in his own right.

The film's source material is Max Brooks's excellent, thorough, utterly engrossing novel, a faux oral history that has no central protagonist.

After an excellent beginning, the craven script (based on DF Jones» novel Colossus) develops cold feet, injects some tiresome comic relief, and gradually begins to drag the whole thing down.

Writer - director Derek Cianfrance knew he was dealing with a story full of coincidences when he adapted M.L. Stedman's novel The Light Between Oceans, so he avoided melodrama by holding himself and his excellent actors in check.

Takes the excellent source novel and narrows and tightens it in just the right ways for the screen.

absolutly brilliant needed a good inteligent spy drama, for a long time, Now its here cross between spooks and john le carrier novel Berlin is excellent backdrop, and the acting is superb

WHY: Based on Patricia Highsmith's controversial novel «The Price of Salt,» director Todd Haynes» «Carol» is a solid but unmemorable film that's propped up by a pair of excellent performances from its leading ladies.