Sentences with phrase «feelings about this novel»

I must admit, I have mixed feelings about this novel.

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Though it's kind of fun to feel like I'm a character in a William Gibson novel when we talk about stuff like that.

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Thus, similar comments about experimental design and interpretation are often seen in manuscript reviews from different journals, and the same reviewer may accept the work for the society - level journal but not for the top - of - the - heap journal if he or she feels that the work is not novel enough.

For this novel, I had to revisit the many feelings scientists and others had about using the bomb.

A stunning, tender novel about emerging identity as one girl begins to develop feelings for another in the wake of a destructive tornado.

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.

And for the director to return the favour, talking about what the novel made him feel and why he chose to adapt it.

Longtime indie producer and sometime screenwriter («Prozac Nation») Galt Niederhoffer produces, adapts and directs her novel about seven college friends who come together for a wedding, which brings out unresolved feelings, especially between the maid of honor (Katie Holmes) and the groom (Josh Duhamel), who have a long and complicated history.

A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the character he has been playing, in one form or another, for years: The man who feels too much to allow himself to show it.

Sony Pictures has acquired Allen Zadoff's young adult novel about a brainwashed young assassin who starts to feel emotions once again.

This twist came out of nowhere, which isn't a bad thing in and of itself, except that so many more left - turns were to follow that it started to feel like Affleck was so overwhelmed by translating Lehane's novel for the big screen that he just decided to throw in all of «what happens» in the book without figuring out how to make us care about any of it.

Kris, though I'm not expecting anything from Oscar and since things have slowed down I don't feel like I'm wasting your time, do you know what the latest news is about the adaptation of the Hunter Thompson novel Rum Diary with Johnny Depp.

A well - crafted film, richly deserving of the honors it has received, No Country for Old Men nevertheless too often feels like a collection of highlights from Cormac McCarthy's novel, sometimes about one guy, sometimes about another, never matching the novel's more focused vision.

He would seem to be much more at home as the main crony of James Bond than as anything one could remotely find in a tale about the scariness of a ring of online predators, and his plot, which would necessitate the world's most inept law enforcement to pull off (and we have that here), feels like something borne out of a trashy crime novel.

The Help, written and directed by Tate Taylor from the novel by Kathryn Stockett, belongs to the Driving Miss Daisy tradition of feel - good fables about black - white relations in America, movies in which institutional racism takes a backseat to the personal enlightenment of one white character.

I agree Christian Bale executed his take on Bruce Wayne Brilliantly I felt so invested in him as Bruce Wayne almost to the point where I do nt care about his take on Batman because he is Batman (Christian Bale has convinced me that this guy Bruce Wayne can exsist and is probably one way or another in the real world kicking ass) Christian Bale thank you for your excellent portrayal of my favorite graphic novel character.

Iles, whom Wikipedia claims had mixed feelings about the film, has continued to write novels but none that he or anyone else has adapted.

This could feel like an airport romance novel about a girl whose life is transformed by love, but Ronan complicates Eilis's otherwise simple story arc as much as she can.

An auteur who has become accustomed to creating magic on a shoestring budget, we're more than excited to see what she'll accomplish with the beloved children's novel A Wrinkle in Time (because keep in mind, DuVernay was the first name approached by Marvel to direct Black Panther, an offer she bypassed to focus on projects and material she felt more strongly about and which would allow her greater creative control).

It's about loving to love those things, which makes Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the bestselling novel feel hollow despite — or maybe because of — the relentless pop culture references it throws at you.

In large part, the outcry over «Cat Person» came because it's about a young woman, and it still feels novel when young women are allowed to be the objects of serious literary and aesthetic interest in the way that young men get to be in your Catcher in the Ryes and your Boyhoods.

Next up will be Death On The Nile, which depending on how one feels about Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, is probably Christie's third or fourth most famous novel.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before This movie, based on a popular YA novel, asks the very important question: What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them all at once?

The incidents and dialogue in Cosmopolis come practically verbatim from Don DeLillo's slim 2003 novel about a young asset manager's surreal, Ulysses - like car ride across Manhattan — so much so that the film at times feels like an experiment, an exploration of how prose translates to film.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Media Mikes had a chance to chat with Wayne about this crazy fun film and how he achieve the feeling of watching a graphic novel coming to life.

The key to the reason why the character's wholly disparate traits feel uneven, though, is that the changes depend entirely on the requirements of Marc Moss and Kerry Williamson's screenplay (based on James Patterson's novel Cross, the twelfth entry in the 18 - book series about the character).

Based on the novel «The Brisk Foxhole» by the young Richard Brooks and directed by Edward Dmytryk in what many feel was the best period of his career, this is the famous postwar thriller about an anti-Semitic murder and the returning American soldiers mixed up in it.

And we care about the people it goes wrong for, including Holloway's Hanaway and Paula Patton's (Just Wright, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire) Jane Carter, because we've been feeling their life - and - death from the moment we meet them.

He feels compelled to mention both that and that he's been riding since 2003 lest anyone think he wrote a novel entirely about motorcycles without actually riding one.

Again, Jenny reported mixed feelings about this approach, «I think they like it... [But] I don't think they find anything that is novel.»

With fiction, it's still about the reader: their feelings, their reactions, their experience as they journey with the heroes of your novel.

How did you feel about Cassie and Dan in the beginning of the novel?

Based on your favorite authors and novels, I have a feeling that you love books that are about women's lives — page - turners, but still substantive and written beautifully.

Lauren Wolk, author of the 2017 Newbery Honor Book Wolf Hollow, discusses Beyond the Bright Sea, her new novel about feeling isolated, searching for family, and experiencing the power of love.

The novel is centered on Kitty, about his feelings.

Often, in Woodson's novel, what isn't said is as essential as what is, and readers come away feeling as if they, in the process of reading the novel, are somehow partners in Woodson's project of telling her poignant and devastating story about dreams deferred, destroyed, and — in rare cases — realized.

I've considered writing a proposal for my novel and sending it in but feel apprehensive about it and have a question.

«My first novel, The Beloved Daughter, like I said, I didn't know anything about marketing but I felt strongly that it was a book that deserved an audience.

I just published my first book over at Amazon and I feel like I have a second job trying to get the word out about my novel.

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When I set about writing my next effort at fiction, I didn't think I had reached a level where I could feel comfortable that my writing was on a close enough par with the thriller novels I was reading.

And, now that she thought about it, the black and white version of the photos gave the novel a darker undercurrent, one she could still feel under her skin.

The novel could have been shortened, but Stewart writes with such attention to the intricacies of plot and personality, his story rarely feels slow; only a significant disclosure about Constance seems forced.

I'm starting to think about writing my next novel and this is one of those books that when you consider it as a benchmark of quality is either bracingly, or terrifyingly, high, depending on how you are feeling when you sit down at your laptop in the morning.

Cory feels that now you can do a novel with concepts unfamiliar to readers because you can assume that the reader has a search box open and can find out what the unfamiliar concept is about.

This is one of those necessary feeling novels — about memory and happiness — that once you've read you can't imagine not knowing.

His novels named for me that great struggle between flesh and spirit, but even more important, they named the feelings I had about growing up in the South and the affection and repulsion I held in equal parts about my home.

Maybe it's just residual holiday - cheer backlash, but lately I've been feeling pretty good about feeling grossed out, and these novels go there with relish.