Sentences with phrase «mark of a great novel»
This ability to engage the reader in such a complex way is the mark of a great novel.
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Not only do figures like Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama credit fiction with expanding their outlook and exercising their minds, but science even suggests that a great novel can boost empathy, a hallmark of excellent leaders.
Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th cenGreat War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th cengreat works of the 19th century.
The quest is distinguished from mere adventure, a trait which marks a great deal of nonfantasy fiction (going back, perhaps, to the picaresque novel).
Directed by Matthew Vaughn and adapted from Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons» graphic novel called The Secret Service, the film borrowed a great deal from the James Bond mythos — the tuxedos especially — while exercising a shocking amount of audacity in regards to sex and violence.
Olivia Cooke is great as Art3mis, Mark Rylance is absolutely perfect as the eccentric James Halliday, Ben Mendelsohn shines as the almost mustache - twirling Sorrento, and while he doesn't look like the novel's version of the character, Tye Sheridan does a really good job as Wade Watts.
The 37 - year old Arkansas native blends the mystic nostalgia of Steven Spielberg's great wonders with the romanticized bayou lyricism of a Mark Twain novel.
Based on the bestselling novel by former spy turned author John le Carré, the movie looks like a throwback to those great, low - key political thrillers from the 1970s, and if that's not enough to pique your interest, then a brief glance at the cast list — a veritable who's who of the best British actors working today, including Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch of «Sherlock» fame — will almost certainly change your mind.
This beautiful book was recommended to me by the editor Mark Richards, who had recently discovered it and believed it to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, albeit sadly neglected.
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It looks like Amazon is having a graphic novel sale, as Stephen King's N, X-Men, and Infinity Gauntlet are all marked way down; lurking in the number 11 slot is the first volume of Saga for $ 3.99, which is a great deal as well.