Sentences with phrase «of excellent novels»

Brick has narrated an abundance of excellent novels, including The First King of Shannara, The Pharaoh's Secret, Jurassic Park, and In Cold Blood.

Overall, this is a thrilling and emotional adaptation of an excellent 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.

Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of reading three excellent novels that have shaped my thinking as an entrepreneur.

The Boring Company will also use novel engineering to tunnel faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else; a feat which seems reasonable to achieve when you have billions of dollars and excellent engineers at your disposal — which, realistically, solves most engineering problems.

Although the press kit does not mention it, an excellent book on the events that served as the basis for Moore's novel was published in 1996: Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs, edited by Richard J. Golsan (University Press of New England).

It is an historical novel, excellent in its plot and its delineation of the chief characters, probably written as an explanation of the festival of Purim.

The Graphic Classroom founder, Chris Wilson, has made it his mission to seek out excellent graphic novels covering a wide range of subjects and styles and get them into the public education system here in the U.S.

Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.

«This experimental system provides an excellent platform to pursue a plethora of exotic physics and novel device applications predicted for topological insulators,» Chen said.

«Being highly active against drug - resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, this novel class of drugs provides us with an excellent opportunity to treat tuberculosis.»

The staff in the internationally recognised division are supported by excellent facilities in cell and tissue culture, molecular biology, novel biomaterials development and testing, physical, biological and mechanical characterisation and state - of - the - art imaging facilities, including spectroscopy, multi-photon microscopy and endoscopy.

Conclusions: We validated (68) Ga - DOTATATE PET as a novel marker of atherosclerotic inflammation and confirmed that (68) Ga - DOTATATE offers superior coronary imaging, excellent macrophage specificity, and better power to discriminate high - risk versus low - risk coronary lesions than -LSB-(18) F] FDG.

The institute has excellent facilities and teams of professionals dedicated to the development of innovative biomedical devices and products, evaluation of medical devices to global specifications, training in novel medical specialties and research in medical and public health areas of social relevance.

Writer - director Derek Cianfrance knew he was dealing with a story full of coincidences when he adapted M.L. Stedman's novel The Light Between Oceans, so he avoided melodrama by holding himself and his excellent actors in check.

WHY: Based on Patricia Highsmith's controversial novel «The Price of Salt,» director Todd Haynes» «Carol» is a solid but unmemorable film that's propped up by a pair of excellent performances from its leading ladies.

«God's Pocket» will be directed by John Slattery, who you know as «Mad Men»» s silver fox Roger Sterling but who is making the move to directing (having helmed several excellent episodes of the series in which he stars), adapting a Pete Dexter novel about Mickey (Hoffman), whose attempts to move on after the suspicious, and not unwelcome, death of his unstable stepson are frustrated by a local reporter with a hunch.

WHY: Though it may be based on a story by red - hot Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo (whose novel «Headhunters» was adapted into the excellent and underseen movie of the same name), «Jackpot» fails to live up to his reputation.

Based on the 2010 novel by Richard C. Moranis, «The Hundred - Foot Journey» is nearly a 4 - star experience, with excellent characters, genuine performances, and, with every great dish, a whole lot of love.

I agree Christian Bale executed his take on Bruce Wayne Brilliantly I felt so invested in him as Bruce Wayne almost to the point where I do nt care about his take on Batman because he is Batman (Christian Bale has convinced me that this guy Bruce Wayne can exsist and is probably one way or another in the real world kicking ass) Christian Bale thank you for your excellent portrayal of my favorite graphic novel character.

Colin Farrell is capable of delivering great work with the right material, and Terrence Howard is an excellent choice to play the silky - smooth villain, but more than anything else, this could be Oplev's coming out party as a director now that he's no longer stuck in the shadow of Stieg Larsson's popular novel.

Tony Gilroy's screenplay is delicately faithful to King's novel, a character - driven drama that boasts some excellent lines — most of them landing in Parfitt's mouth.

Oscar Isaac, Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen, who star in The Two Faces Of January, an excellent psychological thriller adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel by screenwriter turned director Hossein Amini.

Based on the 2008 novel by Matthew Quick, the film has all the ingredients of a Best Picture contender, beginning with its excellent cast.

To purchase a copy of the novel «My Sister's Keeper,» visit Amazon.com Excellent (4 stars) Rated PG - 13 for profanity, sensuality, mature themes, disturbing images and underage alcohol consumption.

Moreover, the sharp, literate script (adapted from the Walter Kirn novel by Reitman and Sheldon Turner) offers Clooney a wealth of good lines with plenty left over for the rest of the cast, in particular the excellent Farmiga.

That's not to say that Mystery Men has nothing to offer: it features some nice comic book style production designs of a Gotham - like city that can be described as a mixture between the Batman movies and Metropolis, but reminded me more of the excellent Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Gibbons.

When David Yates — best known at the time as the director of the excellent BBC conspiracy thriller television series State of Play — took over for The Order of the Phoenix, he introduced a novel but succinct gimmick that treats the wizards» wands as essentially firearms.

Matt Stover's excellent Star Wars Legends novel shows how and why Luke succeeded where the last generation of Jedi failed.

The movie had a full set of excellent features - brillant director (Ridley Scott); terrific cast spearheaded by Harrison Ford; great storyline adapted from Philip K Dick's sci - fi novel; mesmerising music from Vangelis.

Pierce Brosnan impresses outside of the 007 tux in John Boorman's thriller, based on the John le Carre novel, about a tailor (the excellent Geoffrey Rush) who reluctantly becomes a spy for a British agent.

That is surprising, as director S. Craig Zahler has written a number of novels and screenplays, and directed Bone Tomahawk, an excellent mishmash of the Western and horror film.

Nominated for all of the major Academy Awards (although winning none), this excellent film is based upon the award - winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, and like most Merchant - Ivory collaborations, the excellent screenplay is provided by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Le Divorce, Heat and Dust).

Excellent film adaptation of the Highsmith novel..

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

The young cast is excellent, with special call - outs for Lillis and Lieberher, and praise can't get any higher than to say their chemistry recalls not just Stranger Things, a show indebted to the novel IT, but the kids» banter and heartache in the daddy of all King adaptations, Stand By Me.

James Ponsoldt, the director of Smashed, The Spectacular Now and last year's stealthily excellent The End of the Tour returns in 2016 with The Circle, an adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel about a woman getting in over her head at her first job out of college.

Skillfully directed by veteran Phillip Noyce (Catch a Fire, The Quiet American), with a solid cast, great score, excellent cinematography, use of color, and an intriguing premise, the film, based on the novel by Lois Lowry, has all of the tools and the talent on board to succeed.

«The Perks of Being a Wallflower» (Summit) Stephen Chbosky's «The Perks of Being a Wallflower» — adapted from Chboksy's own 1999 novel — got off to an excellent start this weekend.

This book is unusual and engaging, as such it would make an excellent Reading Group study, Extra Curricular Reading Study, Stretch and Challenge, independent novel study, exemplar of «how to» teach a novel for an NQT and a great resource to use for KS3 tutoring or teaching alike.

This resource explores the third Part of this curious novel investigating literary devices, close textual reading, character studies, intertextuality, an excellent SMSC task inference, comprehension and a concluding activity involving creating a cartoon storyboard to support students engagement with the structure of this section of the novel., This powerpoint offers inks to International Mark Schemes (if required).

Therefore, I prefer entire books to be read in class, with every student silently reading along with an excellent audio recording of the novel.

But the minivan offers plenty of equipment, excellent performance, terrific quality and some novel features.

Generally speaking I am no fan of poetry or novels turn into comics, but I must admit that you did an excellent job, totally respecting T.S. Eliot's poem!

The former is a graphic novel adaptation of a great self - published novel, Broken Bulbs; the latter, the self - published sequel to the excellent, traditionally published Xenowealth series; both were successfully funded.

Some of Adiga's descriptive prose is excellent, but this is not really enough to make this a «blazingly savage and brilliant» novel as described on the front cover.

The novel opens with an excellent, extended descriptive passage, starting with an aerial view of the island and then moving in closer and closer.

Kimmery Martin's excellent debut novel serves up an irresistible mix of romance, ER drama, friendship and betrayal.

Embarrassingly enough, I once sold a small stack of rather excellent novels to a guy who bought them with a counterfeit bill.

... (It) is in this excellent novel, whose silhouettes and rags not only make fiction out of history but also reveal the fictions out of which history is made.