Sentences with phrase «lot of good novels»

By the same token there are a lot of good novels that should be considered dystopian but aren't.

Not exact matches

He might well have pointed more sharply to his own wily juxtaposition of signs in the novel, that of the movie's illusion of reality and the moment's encounter of the black man on the church steps, the sign of the cross smudged on his forehead with the ashes of the inescapable exile in the wandering season of Lent that is man's lot as homo viator.

She used to do a lot of things, but now she writes novels and is still really good at shuffling cards.

This has to be learned from lots of firsthand experience with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations, as well as from novels and poetry, history and psychology, and again, of course, the Bible and theology.

While this was novel — and even fun — at first (lots of candles, marathon Scrabble / rummy, Happy Hour starting at noon, trying to eat everything in the house before it went bad etc.), it got old quite quickly, particularly since I have a well, and no power = no water.

I love reading novels as well as cooking and doing a lot of house works.

Fifty Shades Freed, the third movie based on the best - selling novels by E.L. James, opens with a showy wedding during which the demure fiction editor Anastasia Steele and the reformed sadist Christian Grey exchange mismatched vows: apparently, he has to do a whole lot of extra comforting and protecting.

One of the best things the show figured out how to do was to draw lots of stories from lots of different Bosch novels, keeping Bosch, Edgar, and company so busy that there are never the dead spots you get in most shows that use the «It's a 10 - hour movie» narrative approach.

Collar x Malice is one of the best otome visual novels I've played with lots of things to shake up the formula for the better but some typos in the text sour the experience.

One of the more novel plot twists finds good - guy gunfighter Colt Ferron (Steele) casting his lot with reformed outlaw Wolf Whitson (Ted Adams).

As is frequently the case, the initial premise and the early set - up of bizarre and terrifying events to come work a lot better than the denouement, even if Garland has at least been shrewd enough to keep the viewer guessing about the exact meaning of his weird evolutionary fable (it's adapted from Jeff Vandermeer's novel).

It seems like a lot of sci - fi films are becoming adaptations of best - selling novels and Annihilation is no exception to that ongoing trend.

There are a lot of cards at play here, and Gustin Nash's script (based on a novel by C.D. Payne) doesn't keep track of them well.

Filmmaker Alex Garland's take on Jeff VanderMeer's book — the first of an alliterative sci - fi trio known as the Southern Reach Trilogy that also includes «Authority» and «Acceptance» — is very much on the «loose» end of the adaptation spectrum, which suits the movie well: There's a lot about the novel, which is rich in ideas but intentionally vague about certain details, that would have been exceptionally difficult translate to screen.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes with a lot of impressive credentials: it's based on a best - selling novel by John le Carré, it's helmed by the director of a successful Swedish vampire movie, a previous mini-series adaptation of the book is fondly remembered (at least by people of a certain generation) and it has one of the best British casts in recent memory.

Kevin Powers» novel about army life in Iraq was a critical favorite, won lots of writing prizes, and was a best - seller.

Contents of this guide run as follows: * Visual summary of plot * Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory * Form and structure comprehension questions * Settings questions * Context (students explore key issues raised in the play such as youth stereotypes, gang culture, growing violence in the age of the internet etc) * Symbols and Motifs - lots of information about symbols and motifs in the play, followed by a revision activity * Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down chapter by chapter and provide thematic links etc. * Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the novel * Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided * Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.

Kimberlylyrics — all the best with your novels, I hope they will see a lot of success, in fact based on your writing I am sure they will.

Those mini precursors to the graphic novel saved a lot of us come final exam time, but they were also a great tool to use in order to understand great writers» works, to peruse timeless works of literature in order to decide to read the full edition, and to simply be more well - rounded in terms of having been exposed to the classics.

Lots of good advice for those of us wanting to build our author platform while we write our novels.

In 2006 Time magazine excluded Brave New World, Point Counter Point and Island from Best 100 novels list, which caused a lot of commotion; the American Library Association ranks Brave New World # 52 among most challenged books.

I'm at that stage in my writing career that I had a novel published earlier this year and I had lots of questions about best seller lists, etc..

This debut novel from a writer who is better known as a superstar literary agent is generating both a lot of anticipation and also stellar reviews on Goodreads.

There are lot of new authors who won't know better, just like I didn't know better than to use Xlibris for my first novel.

James Scott Bell is the best - selling and award - winning author of thriller novels, zombie legals, historical romance, and lots and lots of books on the craft of writing.

My colleague Anna Davis — then a literary agent at Curtis Brown, as well as a novelist — launched Curtis Brown Creative in 2011 when she realised a lot of people were looking for novel - writing courses as an alternative to expensive Masters Degrees.

If that seems like a whole lot of negative — well, welcome to the brutal world of self - publishing, where little gripes become big gripes precisely because traditionally - published novels have taught us to take their absence for granted.

For as per the latest e-reader news, here comes another e-reader that shares a lot of similarity with the Novel but promises you a far better deal that what the... [Read more...]

They read lots of poetry, as well as novels by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and some Afghan and Iranian novelists whose names no one knows in the rest of the world.

For as per the latest e-reader news, here comes another e-reader that shares a lot of similarity with the Novel but promises you a far better deal that what the Pandigital offering could.

Believing in ghosts is a lot like believing in the characters of a well - wrought novel.

Timothy Zaha wrote some good novels, but a lot of the rest was poorly written pulp fiction composed by authors not talented enough to come up with their own stories who could only make a living by backpacking on the popularity of star wars.

I've also been reading a lot of really great stuff I can't tell you about yet — advanced readers copies of some terrific novels that will come out next year, as well as a couple of memoirs that should make a splash when their publication times come.

One of my writer colleagues has self - published two fantastic novels and I feel for him because I believe his writing is better than a lot of traditionally published stuff.

James is the best selling and award winning author of thriller novels, zombie legals, historical romance, and lots and lots of excellent books on the craft of writing.

A good nonfiction novel can have one of two effects: it pulls you into the material and holds you there until the end; or, it has a lot of excessive information with overly long paragraphs that run on for pages.

There is a lot of advice out there on how best to plan your novel before you start writing it.

Trust me, 160 stories, collections, and novels sounds like a lot, but you can get to it as well given time and a lot of writing, even if you don't have a backlist like I do.

The sci - fi and technology blog io9.com has released its list of the best comic books and graphic novels, which writer Rob Bricken acknowledges includes «a lot» of Image Comics titles...

For example, a well - known celebrity debut novel might not get much interest in the review pages — but it might receive a lot of interest from radio and television producers, as well as feature editors.

Yeah, their new system isn't perfect, but it seems much, much better and fair than what they had before where 80 page novels that weren't even read were making as much as 800 page ones, and where the incentive was to write lots of short things — with no direct financial reward for them being actually read — over write short or long, doesn't matter — just keep the reader reading.

A lot of non-fiction books also have space between paragraphs which works well, but I don't consider it should be done for novels.

Which is good for me as a reader, because I get access to a lot more stories that would * never * have been published (the dizzying rise of the superhero novel is a case in point, though I haven't dipped my ladle in that pot of soup just yet).

Considering I can get another Pandigital Novel (white, which has better specs than the black) from Kohl's this weekend (if in stock) for about $ 5 more after discounts / price - match with OfficeMax / rebate, I would much rather do that for an ereader bigger than my Archos 5, with a lot of Android capabilities such as Nook, Kindle and Borders apps that will do the decryption for me and have the wifi for direct downloads (and the music player will work ok, although some PDN owners with better hearing have complained about the sound quality).

Well, the cover is lousy, and it is a pretty standard fantasy novel so no rarity factor and lots of already at least somewhat established competition.

Titles in the 10,000 book library include Spider - Man, My Little Pony, X-O Manowar, Lcoke & Key and graphic novels by Alan Moore, Matt Fraction, Gail Simone, George R.R. Martin and more — so a lot of good content but not everything available on Marvel Unlimited, for instance.

As the stigma surrounding self - publishing continues to dissipate (indie best - seller Jamie McGuire recently announced that her novel «Beautiful Redemption» has made it to Wal - Mart's coveted shelves — the mark of a true commercial success), it's become a viable source of income for a lot of authors.

I've gotten a lot of encouragement and good advice, had several near misses, but haven't sold that first novel yet, so I might not be the most authoritative source of wisdom.

My last novel has been very well received (it's a finalist for the 2016 Whistler Independent Book Award in the Crime Fiction category) and I'm feeling a lot of pressure to bring out the next book in the series.

e-pub ad mobi are great formats for novels and documents that are primarily «text», but they are not good formats for documents that have lots of graphics and tables.