Sentences with phrase «just about any novel»

Then I've also read that the category of women's fiction has changed to include just about any novel that would appeal mainly to women.

Not exact matches

These companies may be growing or about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds of challenges, coming up with new and novel solutions, and suffering all the ups and downs of the startup process that we know and love so well.

Here's a novel idea honey, just close your legs and you wont have to worry about disease or pregnancy.

How about the people just telling them what to do and they actually do it, there's a novel idea.

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

Yes, with hypothermia just a couple of degrees away, with water rising and no help in sight, Clare and Russ manage to forget about his wonderful wife (the woman he truly loves, the woman who helped him through posttraumatic stress syndrome) and finally give in to three novels» worth of lusty longing.

We have, he says — probably in direct reaction to Wittgenstein in his Tractatus (a book that appeared just a few years earlier and that Whitehead certainly knew about)-- we have to «rationalize mysticism»: not by causal reasons, but «by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated» (Modes 174).

If you are a believer, or just love a good book, check out my historical fiction novel about the Magi and the Nativity: http://www.epiphany-site.com.

thats novel in a recipe... something I have never thought about till now — if you have an egg allergy would that be all eggs or just chickens?

HOW ABOUT WE STRING AT LEAST 3 FUCKING PASSES TOGETHER JUST ONCE IN A GAME!!!!! That would be a novel concept.

No one here cares enough about your opinion enough to have to scroll through five long posts just to see something novel and intellectual from a different poster.

Sorry for the novel, I am just really passionate about this subject.

The story was about Alexander Portnoy, the protagonist of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint, which had just been published.

Much has been written about the triumph of geek culture, but what I am seeing all around goes deeper: not just a fondness for comic books and fantasy novels, but a wholesale embrace of scientific thinking in popular entertainment.

The moisture - absorbing photocatalytic paint can be applied to any surface such as building facades, introducing the novel capability of generating hydrogen fuel just about anywhere.

So just like the young Siddhartha in Hesse's novel, I left the monastic community richer in knowledge about a different way to look at the world but continuing to strive.

The narrator in his most recent novel, How to Read the Air, overhears a colleague say about him: «He's completely American... but you wouldn't necessarily guess that from just looking at him.»

Just because you enjoy skiing and reading romantic novels, doesn't mean your potential match should be crazy about mountains and Jane Austin.

In the novel, Kathy informs the reader: «I knew why I had gotten drunk last night, was smoking so much again, and why I was sleeping with Lester Burdon: losing my father's house had been the final shove in a long drift to the edge, and I thought about calling Connie Walsh [her lawyer] again, just tell her to sue the county for as much as she could get.

The novel was published and, deciding it would make a great film, Spielberg set about doing just that.

Lean on Pete, based on the 2010 novel by Willy Vlautin, is content to move at a canter, which is just about perfect for what it wants to say.

Deep cover FBI agent Martin Odum (Sean Bean) is just returning from an assignment when a stranger plants doubts about who he actually is, in this adaptation of Robert Littell's novel of the same name.

At one point McCall explains to Teri (Moretz) that he's just started reading «Don Quixote,» a novel about a «knight in shining armor in a world where knights don't exist anymore.»

Just as one can't assume all producers of juvenile products have playful depositions, parents should be aware that this Disney film about a children's novel being adapted into a kid's movie is really not intended for young viewers.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Assistant DA Admits to Killing in Self - Defense in Unoriginal Whodunit Based on the debut novel of the same name by Euro - Filipina Sabina Murray, Slow Burn is an intriguing whodunit about a big city Assistant DA, Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock), who admits that she's just confessed to killing a man (Mekhi Phifer) she claims raped her.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

As the inspiration for Moby Dick, I wish I had just watched a remake of Melville's actual novel (now with extra chapters about rope!).

It's just too bad that there isn't anything particularly novel or illuminating about the story itself.

Just about all American high schoolers have read this book as some sort of reading curriculum as Melville's novel has become an iconic book in American literature.

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.

Today is November 5, Guy Fawkes Day, and the obvious pop - cultural - savvy way to mark the occasion is to don the guise of the revolutionary title character from 2006's V For Vendetta, the film based on the David Lloyd / Alan Moore graphic novel about a dystopian future society where just about everything fun has been...

A cult favorite for fans of author Clive Barker, but just plain silly (and very gory) schlock for just about everyone else, Hellraiser marked the first feature film as a director, adapting his own novel, «The Hellbound Heart».

Many ppl can just play it without having to worry about difficulty, since this game is basically 75 % visual novel and 25 % RPG.

The Spectacular Now (R for profanity, sexuality and underage alcohol abuse) Screen adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel of the same name about a just - dumped, party animal (Miles Teller) with no plans for college who turns over a new leaf after making the acquaintance of a straight - laced classmate (Shailene Woodley) with no social life.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paonovel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paonovel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher PaoNovel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paonovel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

Highlighted by five production featurettes covering just about every aspect of the filmmaking process (pre-production, casting, special effects, visual effects and stunts), the HD release also includes a video profile of director Timur Bekmambetov, eight «motion comic» excerpts from the graphic novel, and a 10 - minute featurette on the upcoming «Wanted» video game.

Gadon's newest endeavor comes with the same kind of built - in following: Indignation, the adaption of Philip Roth's 2008 novel, has landed her a spot at the top of just about every must - watch list to come out of the festival.

We just mentioned The Girl on the Train earlier today when talking about the Liam Neeson movie The Commuter — Girl is based on the novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, and follows a woman whose problems haunt her after she is pulled into a mystery involving a couple that she imagines to enjoy the perfect marriage.

When: March 23rd Why: A lot of people have been quick to bill «The Hunger Games» as the next «Twilight,» and while it's easy to see why — not only is it based on a series of young adult novels, but it also features a very similar love triangle at its core — just about everyone involved with the movie has argued against such comparisons.

It is Bingham who admits both the novel's cleverness and its limitations in an early statement: «If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide - angle shot, I think.»

What You Need to Know: The word «unfilmable» is bandied about a lot when discussing difficult, knotty literary source material, so we'll just say that it's very hard to picture anyone being able to wrangle David Mitchell's sprawling novel.

The two men spend the film trying to bring a 1000 + page manuscript of Wolfe's novel, «Look Homeward, Angel» down to a manageable length for publishing, and it puts them at odds with just about everyone, including themselves.

His brother (Messina) teases him about his future, his agent (Mandvi) is pushing him to write a new novel, and his therapist (Gould) just wants him to write something, anything.

«Little Women» (1994) The fifth screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about an East Coast family just after the Civil War.

The reason I avoided putting any comments down about the film version of Elizabeth Gilbert's best selling novel was honestly that the movie just really annoyed and even angered me... and my reasons aren't very politically correct.

Billions is finally returning and the rivalry on Wall Street will continue during its third season, while Before I Fall, based on the 2010 novel, will prompt you to think about the harrowing idea about how just one person's life can impact so many others.

This is not just an adaptation of The Hobbit, the beloved — even by those who don't care for the linguistic exercises and heavy mythology that make up its three - part sequel — novel about a cautious halfling who finds courage in a series of adventures, but also a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy of films.

What the script by Elliott and Rossio (Dead Man's Chest, Shrek), who very loosely rework a wholly unrelated pirate novel («On Stranger Tides», naturally) from 1987 by Tim Powers, fills the time up with is a tedious romance between a goodly cleric named Philip (Clafin, United) and a sultry mermaid dubbed Serena (Berges - Frisbey, Meet the Elizabethz), the attempted extraction of one of her mythical tears, and some mumbo jumbo about maps and silver chalices from Ponce de Leon's ship that must be used in just the right way in order to effect the desired outcome at the Fountain.

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.

Based on Ira Levin's novel, Roman Polanski's 1968 occult classic about a woman carrying the devil's spawn — literally, the devil's spawn, not just a spoiled kid — didn't need a redo.