Sentences with phrase «experience than the novel»

«The Humbling,» which is a richer and more comic experience than the novel, wouldn't work without a star who loves acting every bit as much as Simon claims to loathe it.

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Fair enough, but these novels are more like life than treatises; they are to be experienced, not understood.

I was single for a long time and struggled with loneliness, but I learned from experience that I was far happier at home reading a novel than I was dating the wrong person.

The field belongs increasingly to those who have experienced the richness and depths of the tradition and who are restive with the something - new - every - week folks who, in Luther's words, have «no more than an itch to produce something novel so that they might shine before men as leading lights.»

We've all had the experience of repeating a dramatic story so many times that the events seem dead, as if they came from a novel rather than real life.

Using novel technologies developed at HMS, the team looked at how a single sensory experience affects gene expression in the brain by analyzing more than 114,000 individual cells in the mouse visual cortex before and after exposure to light.

The results of this simple and novel treatment were so extraordinary that they seemed to belong in an infomercial rather than a medical journal: Ninety percent of the patients experienced total or near - total relief.

A loose adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's much stranger novel, Annihilation offers a better experience than a story.

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.

Ross offers something in his film adaptation of the novel that Collins, writing with Katniss's voice, never could: the experience of watching the Hunger Games, rather than being a contestant in them.

Hybrid is an exception, but it takes more than a novel idea to craft an engaging, worthwhile experience.

Since seeing the recent adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel I have also come into the understanding that the film experience is merely half the picture; that reading what Flynn is able to elucidate in greater detail in print is somehow more compelling than the visual spectacle of Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike operating at extremely high levels.

These virtual experiences would contextualize periods of history for students far better than any lecture or video could, and it would be a far different experience reading a Charles Dickens novel after experiencing the filth and grandeur of 19th - century London through your own eyes.

We often see that exposing pupils to new and novel «real world» learning experiences on an educational visit can have much more impact than a day in the classroom in helping pupils develop self - confidence and social skills.

I've done that same experience on more than one occasion, picked up a self - published novel only to see a dozen horrible mistakes — everything from typos to misspellings and just genuinely terrible prose — all within two pages.

Just because a novel is 400 pages long does not mean it's a «better reading experience» than one that is 200 pages long or even 50 pages long.

I can certainly see how a short story could be a better reading experience than a 400 page novel.

It was actually the experience of handling a lengthy bill (with more than 400 pages of legislative text) that gave me the confidence that I could write a novel - length piece of fiction.

This is Apple's greatest advantage and allows people who love to read graphic novels, manga, comics and magazines a better experience than Android.

Simply written with direct comments made to the reader, which I found to be finally annoying, I found this novel to be a story whose idea is much more engaging than the reading experience itself.

There was little in the novel that reflected any conversations or shared experiences, other than those involving Killian and his bullying.

But with (for example) a marvelous riff on the generic Chinese restaurant that exists at the edges of many towns in the Midwest, the novel makes clear that it is exploring a different sort of immigrant experience than we often read about — call it the Middle America Asian - American experience.

- «The Philadelphia Inquirer» «Harsher, bleaker, and more mystical than» Seventh Son», this novel superbly demonstrates Card's solid historical research, keen understanding of religious experience, and, most of all, his mastery of the art of storytelling.»

The Philadelphia Inquirer Harsher, bleaker, and more mystical than Seventh Son, this novel superbly demonstrates Card's solid historical research, keen understanding of religious experience, and, most of all, his mastery of the art of storytelling.

-- The Philadelphia Inquirer «Harsher, bleaker, and more mystical than Seventh Son, this novel superbly demonstrates Card's solid historical research, keen understanding of religious experience, and, most of all, his mastery of the art of storytelling.»

«Harsher, bleaker, and more mystical than Seventh Son, this novel superbly demonstrates Card's solid historical research, keen understanding of religious experience, and, most of all, his mastery of the art of storytelling.»

I had an interesting experience this week: I just bought a brand - new hardcover novel for less than I would have paid for the ebook.

As a Marketing Consultant, with more than 20 years experience, I find the entire process fascinating and I hope to share everything I learn about the pros and cons of self publishing along with marketing tips for anyone else out there who, like me, hopes they have a Novel in them.

And I think this novel shows slavery in a way one doesn't get from history books: it has the immediacy of some of the best slave narratives, with a much broader view of the whole than any one slave's experience.

Experience the journey of a level - headed building contractor who suddenly realizes he is destined for adventure and was meant for much more than an ordinary life in The Girl from Tir - na - nOg, the new novel by Gary Hope.

But each of those editors left me more confused than ever, and the experience never helped me move forward with my novel.

There is still the reader perception to keep in mind and a vast majority (in my experience) are willing to pay $ 4.99 — $ 7.99 for a novel and think that e-books priced in that range are more «pro» than those priced in the $ 2.99 and less range.

I will, however: — write in my blogs about things other than publishing — work on my next novel and story collection — play lots of sims — write and share a short illustrated story, to see if I can — tweet whatever I want — read and review books when I want — make art, if I feel like it — make some new things for my Etsy shop — upload multitudes of unsorted travel photos from this summer — clean my house and get ahead of my laundry situation — help my son learn addition and subtraction — get away from the internet sometimes — experience daylight

While in theory I like the idea of having a tablet that does more, with such multipurpose functionality, in practice I found using the Novel tiresome enough that these experiences are better left to a smartphone handset than to this larger screen device.

MJ: As this is my first foray into comics, I don't have anything to compare it to other than my experience with my own novels (non-comic) and the e-books I've been selling of my own fiction.

«It's difficult to describe the work of Donna Leon other than in superlatives... An annual blessing, a fine series — one of the finest (see what I mean) in the mystery (or any) genre... There are few reading joys that equal cracking the binding of a new Leon novel... If you have not experienced this world, so exotic and yet so familiar, you can pick up literally any volume in the series and begin a comfortable entry into Brunetti's Venice.»

The unfortunate truth is that editing your first novel is likely to be far more expensive than editing for experienced writers because you have so much more to learn.

He is a very prolific and experienced writer with over 20 novels published and more than 750,000 books sold through Kindle.

He has more than 10 years experience writing articles, poetry, novels, and stage and screen plays.

Rather than presenting yet more novel ways to shoot foreigners that committed no obvious crime other than existing, virtual reality is taking gaming in a direction towards experiences and immersive... Read more

My personal experience of Visual Novels has been very hit and miss and perhaps due to translation issues I normally find them a curiousity rather than a joy to experience.

GLENN LONEY»S JANUARY, 2015 RAMBLES At The Asia Society: TAKAHIRO IWASKAI: In Focus, BUDDHIST ART OF MYANMAR, At The Brooklyn Museum of Art: KEHIND WILEY: A New Republic, At The CUNY Grad Center's James Gallery: SPECTERS OF COMMUNISM: Contemporary Russian Art, At The Frick Collection: COYPEL»S DON QUIXOTE TAPESTRIES: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth Century France, At The Galerie St Etienne: ALTERNATE HISTORIES: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St Etienne, At The Grolier Club: ALDUS MANUTIUS: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze, LITERATURE OF THE LIBERATION: The French Experience in Print — 1944 46, At LCLPA — The Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts» Vincent Astor Gallery: BROADWAY REVEALED: Behind the Theatre Curtain, At MMA — The Metropolitan Museum of Art: CAPTAIN LINNAEUS TRIPE: Photographer of India & Burma — 1832 1860, At The MLM — The Morgan Library & Museum: The World Monuments Fund 2015 Paul Mellon Lecture, RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME: The Art of Urban Form, LINCOLN SPEAKS: Words That Transformed a Nation, PIRANESI & THE TEMPLES OF PAESTUM: Drawings from Sir John Soane's Museum, HEBREW ILLUMINATION FOR OUR TIME: The Art of Barbara Wolff, EMBRACING MODERNISM: Ten Years of Drawing Acquisitions, At MCNY — The Museum of the City of New York: EVERYTHING IS DESIGN: The Work of Paul Rand, SAVING PLACE: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, At The Park Avenue Armory: WAS — The Annual Winter Antiques Show: A Benefit for the East Side House Settlement.

It is more than a celebration of Joyce's novel - it is an alternative history of modern culture in which pop art is not the faintly embarrassing denim - clad uncle of today's young artists, but a manifestation of the driving energy of modernism, from Joyce to today, a desire to celebrate common, humble experience.

One of the workshop participants had significant experience working for an independent brick - and - mortar bookseller, and she volunteered that many (the majority, in fact) of authors who proudly publish their first novels will see those novels get in the hands of far fewer readers than you'd think.

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This isn't the promise of goggle - based computing that William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and even former Gizmodo EIC Annalee Newitz have espoused in their cyberpunk novels, but it's the first mixed reality experience that feels like more than a gimmick or a tool for gamers alone.

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