Sentences with phrase «good fantasy novels»

I'm just an overall good guy who enjoys reading good fantasy novels and playing games that I enjoy.

Anyway, the best fantasy novel I've ever read (and the best read I've had this year).

Not exact matches

People haven't begun reading more but they've begun reading, one might say, better: sales of thrillers, romance novels, and fantasy have declined as demand for serious literature has grown.

If you like «fantasy» novels with Kings, Queens, magicians, monsters, and so on, then this is a good series to read.

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I'm an honest, good - natured, man that loves anime / manga, videogames, sci - fi, and fantasy novels.

I'm a well rounded nerd who loves anime, Star Wars, fantasy novels and movies, and Comic Book movies.

For the rest of us - the scornful, the uninterested, those too old to fully believe - the films derived from J.K. Rowling's seven best - selling fantasy novels have waxed and waned, moving from the formulaic fun of the early entries to the darkening adolescent gloom of the middle installments to the grim Wagnerian conflict of the final haul.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

The new trailer for «The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones» teases a familiar, but solid, young adult fantasy adventure, based on the best - selling novel by Cassandra Clare.

George R.R. Martin's fantasy cycle A Song of Ice and Fire — five very large novels deep now — is concerned with impassioned monarchs and their desperate ministers, as well as the deformations wrought by their egotistical wars.

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

They debate which is their favourite planet (she makes a good case for Jupiter), we see her sketching and reading fantasy novels in an early Mötley Crüe T - shirt.

While the film is arguably no better or worse than its literary source, it does shatter the fantasies of sexual desire and sexual pleasure constructed within the novel.

Presented for your pre-minted approval: Joe Wright's costume follow - up to his costume debut Pride & Prejudice, another snooty literary adaptation of a well - regarded British novel likewise starring Keira Knightley, shot in the dappled, golden light of fantasy - novel cover art and housewife shower - nozzle daydreams.

Not remarking on how good the movie was or wasn't (sounds like it was good), I want to know is it the trend to now make every prepubescent girls fantasy novels into a movie nowadays?

A pre-adolescent fantasy of an orphan discovering a secret lineage and magical powers, J.K. Rowling's crafty novel creates a distinct fantasy world with a well - defined set of guidelines while tackling many of the childhood fears (real, imagined, and metaphorical) of making new friends, confronting bullies, and discovering his legacy through the prejudices of others.

She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.

For the past few months, Neil Gaiman has been hard at work on Good Omens, Amazon's upcoming adaptation of his and Terry Pratchett's 1990 fantasy novel, which stars David Tennant the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale.

This much - delayed adaptation of the best - selling young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke has been getting poor reviews.

Following a new poster for Ready Player One earlier this week [take a look here], we now have an international trailer for Steven Spielberg upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult sci - fi fantasy novel, as well as a series of character posters featuring Parzival (Tye Sheridan), Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), Aech (Lena Waithe), Sho (Philip Zhao), Daito (Win -LSB-...]

Most recently Kyd scored Crytek's Sony VR and Oculus Rift virtual reality game ROBINSON: THE JOURNEY, the # 1 Chinese fantasy / sci - fi movie CHRONICLES OF THE GHOSTLY TRIBE (based on the best - selling Chinese novel «Ghost Blows Out The Light») directed by Lu Chuan (City of Life and Death, The Last Supper) and the Warner Bros. series MORTAL KOMBAT X: GENERATIONS directed by Garrett Warren.

Along the way, they'll be shining a spotlight on some of the best self - published fantasy novels today.

New York Times bestselling steampunk / fantasy author Gail Carriger joined us this week to talk about writing and marketing for traditionally published novels as well as her experiences self - publishing novellas and short stories.

I also employed a very light drift of fantasy in my adult novel The Uncoupling, as well as in a book for middle - grade readers about kids who meet at a Scrabble tournament, called The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman.

An intriguing, well written, and aware novel delineating the difference between belief and science, reality and fantasy.

There's a wide range of genres in this year's best first novels, from fantasy and mystery to social realism, and many new writers open up the old formulas and break boundaries in form and subject.

Tonight we chatted with fantasy author Abigail Hilton about making money from Patreon, audiobooks, and web comics as well as full - length novels.

I have worked with authors like NY Times Best Seller Bella Andre and also with The Tannenbaum Company creating a look book for a fantasy novel turned screenplay.

Topics range from standard «best of» lists to very specific niches like «Amazing Christian fantasy series that I wish everyone knew about» and «Sleuths in Silks» (a list of historical detective novels with female main characters).

I do have one self - pubbed novel, but it's a mainstream book with a narrower audience, so I wouldn't expect it to sell as well as the fantasy books.

I pre selected all the books I reviewed from the reviews they got from Amazon and tried picking well received self published fantasy novels that no one knew about yet.

Cassandra Clare, whose previous best - selling series of YA urban fantasy novels have been set in contemporary New York (The Mortal Instruments) and Victorian - era London (The Infernal Devices), has signed a new deal with Margaret K. McElderry Books for an upcoming series set in present - day L.A..

It isn't just t fantasy that has been building up a slew of poor indie novels, the genres have as well.

Most recently is J. K. Rowling's release of The Casual Vacancy, which is an adult novel with strong themes, venturing well off path from the optimistic fantasy story telling of Harry Potter.

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The world is well constructed and rich with the unexplored vistas of ancient history that you desire in a first class fantasy novel.

A pleasant surprise that Kindle threw on the very second day was by listing it as the second best selling among the fantasy novels on Kindle Store!

Someone who's a big fan of YA fantasy novels probably isn't the best beta reader for your historical treatise on mid-century architecture.

well - crafted science fiction or fantasy novel is a passport to another world.

Cho was a 2013 nominee for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, joint winner of the Crawford Award for her short story collection Spirits Abroad (Buku Fixi, 2014) and winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer for her debut historical fantasy novel Sorcerer to the Crown (Ace / Macmillan, 2015).

A fan of sci - fi, fantasy and horror, C.J. Daniels has penned three novels, as well as a short story within the Lost Planets anthology alongside legendary authors such as Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick and Edgar Allan Poe.

T. C. Southwell has written over thirty fantasy and science fiction novels, as well as five screenplays.

What Happened: Michael McClung's The Thief Who Pulled On Trouble's Braids has been called one of the best indie fantasy novels of the year.

The best way to get them reading is to give them «sports and historical nonfiction, potty humor, bloodthirsty vampires and action - packed graphic novels, fantasy and sleuthing.»

This intricately plotted literary novel will appeal to Kay's many fans as well as readers who enjoy character - driven historical fiction with a touch of fantasy.

I love a good fantasy rooted in folklore, and Novik does a great job mining the mythology of Eastern Europe for this novel.

Kim Harrison is known for her sexy urban fantasy novels starring witches and demons — but the best - selling writer has a secret life that features «jeans and scuffed boots» that are a far cry from her leather - clad author photos.

In her 35th novel, best - selling science fiction and fantasy author Tepper brings back two of her favorite characters for another adventure.

A brilliantly imagined and written first novel that's been a smash hit in the U.S. as well as Britain incorporates elements of traditional British school stories while never sacrificing the fantasy element as orphan Harry Potter learns he is a wizard.