Sentences with phrase «new dystopian novel»

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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.»

I have not, but I have watched the new series on Hulu based on the dystopian novel.

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.

Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), uniting with Shannon, directs this new adaptation from Ray Bradbury's seminal dystopian novel.

With a new director, Robert Schwentke, bringing Veronica Roth's YA novel to the screen, and less future dystopian, world - building to be done here, it's a crisper film, with action taking the lead over exposition.

Cinematic adaptations of young adult novels focusing on a dystopian future are nothing new but there are thoughtful films that truly stand out in the crowd (like The Hunger Games series and The Giver) and then there are movies like Insurgent.

Dystopian novels form a major category: Orwell's Animal Farm, William Golding's allegory The Lord of the Flies, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist comedy Slaughterhouse - Five, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and McCarthy's The Road join Nineteen Eighty - Four here.

The classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell's story about a futuristic totalitarian state, has been in the midst of a spontaneous sales explosion, catapulting to the top of bestseller lists at Amazon, the New York Times and independent retailers.

Starters, Lissa Price, (RH / Delacorte Young Readers; Listening Library) is a new entry in the crowded field of YA dystopian novels.

The dystopian themes may attract new readers, and students will have much to discuss, but fans of his more potent novels (e.g., Disgrace) may find this effort disappointingly flat.»

I provide stories that over step the line, stories that New York Literary Agents and publishers will never publish, as a Writer I have my novels self - published, because we still live in a dystopian world that only shake and bake for the suburban crowd; thank you Mr. J...

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I'm so excited to show you the brand new cover for City of Ice and Dreams, the second full - length novel in my dystopian thriller series, Tales From A Warming Planet.

Elle is the New York Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of over 30 novels across romance, urban fantasy, dystopian, sci - fi and action adventure.

Dystopian novels are nothing new.

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In Oceania, the dystopian society of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty - Four, a new language was created by the government to control the thinking patterns of the people.