Sentences with phrase «many dystopian book»

This is an equal parts horror and dystopian book, so keep that in mind when making your selection.

She handed me a dystopian book.

I'm into most video games (seriously ask, I've probably beaten it) I like most action Anime I like high fantasy, syfi, or dystopian books I also enjoy all the good fandoms IE: Dr.. Who, Supernatural, Starwars, Firefly, etc...

Most dystopian books tell the same story.

I find that Christian YA dystopian books for all ages are one of the leading edges of the Christian fiction world.

I love dystopian books and this one sounds really fascinating!

Love YA paranormal, urban fantasy, science fiction and dystopian books?

There pricing system is rather simple: $ 20 for Scifi, Fantasy, Horror, and Dystopian books, and $ 35 for Romance, Steamy / Erotic, Thriller, Mystery, and Nonfiction Authors.

Not exact matches

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

The third book focuses on Jane and Mark Studdock, an academic couple who end up falling on opposite sides of a conflict involving the dystopian events surrounding Bracton College, a sinister corporation, and a mysterious figure dug up from the bottom of a well.

Fahrenheit 451 remains in the public consciousness for its searing critique of censorship (451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns — in Bradbury's dystopian view of the future, that temperature is used to burn books) and control over learning and intellectual pursuit.

In each of these novels — by Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury — books become an enemy because they represent a written record of the past to a dystopian future where the past is something to forget.

He likes reading military thrillers and history books; I like cookbooks and dystopian novels.

I read the book (along with her other awesome dystopian work, Oryx...

British writer Philip Pullman, creator of the His Dark Materials trilogy of children's books set in a dystopian alternative reality, described Trump as a «savage».

Many people could construe the tagline of Malcolm Gay's recent book, «The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High - Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines,» as a vision of dystopian cyborgs lording over the general public.

But the truth is, the book I am reading at the time of his question probably is a dystopian novel.

What's more, the second book in the running, as selected by a further third of participants, is George Orwell's dystopian political commentary 1984.

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After Danny Boyle filmed an adaptation of the book (released in 2000), Garland transitioned into screenwriting, with a proclivity for dystopian science fiction.

In 1985 Neil Postman published a book, «Amusing Ourselves to Death, «in which he argued that of the two great dystopian novels from the first half of the 20th century — Aldous Huxley's «Brave New World» and George Orwell's «1984» — it was actually the former, whose weapon of governmental control was distraction, rather than the latter, whose weapon was dictatorship, that was the more prescient and more deadly.

The final «Divergent» book will be split into two movies, a future that is indeed a little dystopian.

For those unfamiliar with X-Men comic book lore, «Days of Future Past» is an arc where the characters live in the dystopian future of 2013 (the horror!)

I first became aware of the Hunger Games series through a terrific article in the New Yorker by Laura Miller about the vogue for dystopian YA books.

2013 has definitely been a year of big comic book movies so far, with Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel both performing laudably at the box office, but one comic book adaptation that seems to have flown under the radar is acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon - ho's (The Host, Mother) dystopian sci - fi drama Snowpiercer.

This second instalment — in what will be four films from the phenomenally popular Suzanne Collins book trilogy — finds Katniss, haunted by the ordeal of her inspirational victory in the 74th Hunger Games, back in dystopian, post-Apocalyptic Panem's miserable mining community District 12 with her mother, sister and stoic sweetheart Gale (Liam Hemsworth).

The first book, memorably adapted last year into a star - making vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence, focuses on the Hunger Games themselves, an event in a dystopian future America in which two children from each of the 12 districts are put into an arena and forced to fight to the death.

Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.

Metropolis, heavily influenced by the books of H.G. Wells, also stands as the first dystopian film in history.

Season 2 of «The Handmaid's Tale» may be moving past the narrative of the book on which it is based, but that won't prevent it from delving deeper into its dystopian setting.

HBO is the next network to churn out an adaption of a book about the dystopian futures after the successes of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and Amazon's The Man in the High Castle.

Entitled Kelvin's Book, the dystopian, near - future series follows a group of youths «forced to make an emergency landing outside of their home and are confronted with the actual face of their home country for the first time,» according to a press statement.

3:45 am (14th)-- TCM — Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut's first foray in English - language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book - burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right.

«Logan» is a comic - book movie that feels more like a dystopian sci - fi Western starring a guy and a girl who just happen to be able to turn their hands into cutlery.

It started out as a dystopian future with little to offer except a badass fight - to - the - death scenario, adapted from the young adult book series.

Having only read the first book of the series I was not prepared for various dramatic underpinings that would catapult me into this dystopian drama on so many levels of engagement.

Alive: Book One of the Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler This dystopian YA book mixes everything you loved from The Hunger Games series and Divergent series plus the world gets another badass female characBook One of the Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler This dystopian YA book mixes everything you loved from The Hunger Games series and Divergent series plus the world gets another badass female characbook mixes everything you loved from The Hunger Games series and Divergent series plus the world gets another badass female character!

The details: Last year's not - bad big - screen adaptation of James Dashner's dystopian YA novel The Maze Runner has spawned a sequel, based on the second book of the series, The Scorch Trials.

The YA book is another dystopian future tale (is there any other kind?)

The books envision a dystopian, futuristic United States - like country called Panem that's divided into 12 districts, with a Capitol that rules them, and the terrible game of bloodsport the Capitol makes those districts take part in.

Based on Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel which depicts a future where media is an opiate, history is outlawed and «firemen» burn books, Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Shannon.

Ready Player One's bubblegum whirlwind of pop culture nods is going to deliver a lighter, blockbuster - friendly spin on dystopian escape via cyber-reality when Spielberg's movie version of the book arrives at the end of the month.

The movie is set in a dystopian future where books are not allowed, as fireman Guy Montag (played by Jordan) has the task of burning all books.

Before The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale, there was another movie based on a book about a dystopian future where an evil government distracts the masses with a popular series of gladiatorial deathmatches.

I am vaguely aware that it's a satirical cop comic book series set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future and that it probably influenced the creation of RoboCop.

«Fahrenheit 451»: Michael B. Jordan stars on this movie — in line with the dystopian drama of the similar title by way of Ray Bradbury — a couple of long run the place books are banned and ordered to be burned.

Fahrenheit 451, an upcoming HBO film, is based on a dystopian world, in which books are illegal.

The third book in Collins» dystopian - literature juggernaut has been halved.

HBO drops a fiery new teaser for Fahrenheit 451 starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon as book - burning dystopian firemen.

She was taking a break from work on her seventh book, a feminist dystopian novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale but with what she calls a «distinctly Asian phenomenon» — that of the rising male - to - female birth rate and the consequences for society.