Sentences with phrase «of the best novels ever»

A World War Two classic by Michelle Magorian and widely recogignised as one of the best novels ever written.

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During Lent, I've been rewatching the magnificent 1981 BBC production of Brideshead Revisited — the best TV adaption ever made of a great novel, in part because of the stunning cast but in larger part because Evelyn Waugh's book is the screenplay.

By asserting the process - theoretic foundations of our world, we can maintain both science and God and thus escape the materialist malaise - perhaps never better expressed than in this brief excerpt from a work held by many to be the greatest novel ever written:

one of the best novels i've ever read.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the controversial and acclaimed novel Silence may be the most ambitious of his career: According to reports, it will run well over three hours, the longest film he's ever made.

Alas other right wing Tory MPs have not fared so well on the site, with Iain Duncan Smith only getting 1.5 out of 5 stars for his 2003 novel and once recent reviewer calling it «a major contender for the most incoherent, dull, predictable, mess of a novel ever foisted on a long suffering public».

Because as anyone who's ever read her novels knows all too well, she was a pro when it comes to teaching us about the true workings of society.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

The action is more intense and the drama is better portrayed with a closer adaptation of the original novel and while the classic westerns hold a certain place in my heart I doubt they've ever been able to portray the west as well and as beautifully as they did in this film.

The panel will also feature the first footage ever seen of the futuristic thriller based on the # 1 New York Times best - selling novel, Divergent.

Although it has been almost 40 years since William Peter Blatty's best selling novel, The Exorcist, hit the screen, it's still one of the most effective horror movies ever made.

Ever the chameleon, Haynes (who has made throwback 50's melodramas, glam rock pastiches and high concept Bob Dylan biopics) has set his camera's eye on the world of children, adapting an illustrated book by Brian Selznick, best known for writing the novel that would become Martin Scorsese's flight of fancy, Hugo.

In the end, this take on «Madding Crowd» is pretty and well - done and nice, without ever feeling like an essential version of a beloved novel.

Deservedly winner of the Best Director gong at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Nicholas Winding Refn makes Los Angeles look as beautiful as it's ever been without using any tourist traps, and the adaptation from the James Sallis novel by Hossein Amini (who also adapted the dark Jude and The Wings of a Dove) is beautifully done, even if some of the music (largely an effective ambient / electro score) is a little on - the - nose.

The extremely popular young adult novel Divergent was written by first time author Veronica Roth and has topped the New York Times Best Sellers list ever since being published in May of 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers.

The loosest of adaptations, cherry - picking from Michel Faber's strong novel of the same name, Under the Skin is home to a trio (at least) of indelible images and a style and presentation that function as shunts into a thicket of thorny existential questions; it's the best film I've seen this year and among the best films I've ever seen.

The end result is a shockingly entertaining thriller that's not only one of the most novel «home invasion» movies you'll ever see, but easily one of the best horror flicks of the year.

10:00 pm — TCM — To Kill a Mockingbird Widely regarded as one of the best adaptations of a great novel ever, To Kill a Mockingbird captures the themes and mood of the novel perfectly, following the racial and social tensions of a murder trial in the South.

From Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who gave us the 1998 Dogme film The Celebration and the 2012 Best Foreign Language nominee The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd — the fourth cinematic adaptation of Hardy's novel (the most famous of which is the 1967 John Schlesinger version)-- is a gorgeously photographed period piece, and one of the fastest - paced films about the 19th century that I have ever seen.

Based on Kōbō Abe's novel of the same name, Woman in the Dunes is in one way the best, most insightful and evocative adaptation of T.S. Eliot's «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock» there ever was, from Eliot's winsome protagonist looking to escape regret into experience to, literally, these lines about entomology as a metaphor for being seen clearly and judged wanting:

Yet the tough, literate, dialogue - driven idiom he helped invent is everywhere in ascendance: David Mamet and Elmore Leonard have cited him as major influences (the latter calls his first book, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, «the best crime novel ever written»).

As the apparently - perfect wife of a Nobel prize - winning writer, Close gives arguably her best ever performance in an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's novel

He supervised the production of films including George Clooney's 2005 Best Picture nominee Good Night, and Good Luck; the critically acclaimed family film and 2006 NAACP Image Award nominee Akeelah and the Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett; dark thriller Turistas, for which domestic rights were sold to Fox Atomic in a pre-emptive bid within hours of the film's first screening; James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes, which ranked as the largest - ever domestic sale at Cannes; and The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall, which pre-sold to The Weinstein Company in a multi-party bidding war.

Look no further... The Best Halloween Ever is a realistic fiction novel about a group of students that attend Woodrow Wilson School and

When John Steinbeck wrote East of Eden — a phenomenal book — he recorded this in his journal, which was later published in Journal of a Novel: «I know it is the best book I have ever done.

It may be one of the best novels I've ever read, and I'm so happy to have found it.

Experts in their genre, they take chances on higher risk novels, cultivate intense relationships with their authors and readers and publish some of the best books I've ever read.

In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer This novel by Tom Spanbauer, published in 2001, is the best book ever written about New York City.

In his latest novel, We Are Water, best - selling author and masterful storyteller Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True) uses the Oh family to illustrate how ever - changing relationships can be.After 27 years of a mostly successful marriage,...

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In the same way that it has been said many times that the late great Steve Goodman wrote the perfect «country and western» song, let me be the first to say that — for all the reasons just enumerated and many more — I believe Elizabeth Stuckey - French has written the best «book group» novel ever, and I mean that as the warmest of praise.

Well, aside from the short story I just wrote, I've only ever written my Shadow Stalker serial (well, that I've officially published anyway... I've written tons of other short stories and a few novels that were never publishWell, aside from the short story I just wrote, I've only ever written my Shadow Stalker serial (well, that I've officially published anyway... I've written tons of other short stories and a few novels that were never publishwell, that I've officially published anyway... I've written tons of other short stories and a few novels that were never published).

Again I've read well - researched and better written historical romance novels within the self published ranks than ever comes out of Harper Impulse.

- Jim Shepard, author of Project X and National Book Award finalist Like You'd Understand, Anyway «Tender, funny, and moving, J. Ryan Stradal's debut novel made me crave my mother's magic cookie bars... and every good tomato I've ever had the privilege of eating.

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is, quite simply, one of the best novels I have ever read, and as close to perfect as any book I'm likely to encounter in my reading life.

Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him «one of the best of the best.»

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

A masterful novel that combines the exhilarating mysticism of The Da Vinci Code with the pulse - pounding action of a Tom Clancy thriller, James Rollins's Map of Bones is destined to be a modern classic that will stand among the very best adventure tales ever written.

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (Simon & Schuster) Jennifer Weiner's debut novel had its 10th anniversary in the spring of 2011, and it's just as funny and empowering as ever.

Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrels is consistently listed as the best romance novel ever written, and it is.

It is one of the best and most ambitious novels I've ever read.

Also available is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — as well as Brave New World Revisited, a set of essays written 26 years after his original novel, «in which he meditates on how his fantasy seemed to be becoming a reality and far more quickly than he ever imagined.»

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 worNovel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 wornovel of about 74,000 words...

* December 7, 2011: I'm interviewed by author Pat Bertram about HUNTER and a wide range of related topics, including: how my background influenced the story; what I want readers to take away from the novel; how much of me is in the book and in the character of Dylan Hunter; my research methods; my biggest challenges in the writing; and which famous author gave me the best writing advice I've ever received.

One of the best sci - fi novels I ever read was written by a hopeful author, who to this day, has not sold more than a few dozen ebooks.

So all those who were working off the 2010 wisdom of pricing their work at.99 cents are now relegated to a bin where they will have far less chance than ever (I won't debate whether a novel should sell for.99 — you better than I know what your work is worth).

I've completed two novels this year, one of which I think is the best thing I've ever written, and one of which I think is probably the second best thing I've ever written.

In Journal of a Novel, John Steinbeck summarized a writer's internal life so well when he wrote, «I know it is the best book I have ever done.

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The success of movies made from Chandler's stories (especially Humphrey Bogart's 1946 The Big Sleep and James Garner's Marlowe, a 1969 flick based on The Little Sister), as well as radio shows, TV series, and even comic books based on his work makes us forget that he only ever published seven novels and 24 short stories during his lifetime.