Sentences with phrase «people than a novel»

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I was single for a long time and struggled with loneliness, but I learned from experience that I was far happier at home reading a novel than I was dating the wrong person.

They say that in war time people read short stories rather than novels.

Examining genome sequence information for more than 250,000 people, the researchers first uncovered 16 new diabetes genetic risk factors, and one new CHD genetic risk factor; hence providing novel insights about the mechanisms of the two diseases.

When a black person presented a dissenting perspective to a group of whites, the perspective was perceived as more novel and led to broader thinking and consideration of alternatives than when a white person introduced that same dissenting perspective.

Most people would think that a book about the toxicity of the elements arsenic, antimony, mercury, lead and thallium would be fairly heavy going, but this book reads more like a novel than a chemistry text.

His 1988 novel The Alchemist has sold more than 65 million copies and has been cited as an inspiration by people as diverse as Malala Yousafzai and Pharrell Williams.

«We used computer generated, novel faces rather than, for example, famous faces,» Rose explained in an email to TIME, «so that people couldn't simply hold onto associated names or details.»

I have absolutely been caught up in infatuation before, thinking that I had this awesome love story with this person, but it turns out that the «fairy tale» was more of a short story than a novel, lol.

Already, this is more than we ever learn about the narrator of Jeff VanderMeer's novel, the first in his so - called Southern Reach trilogy, where each book provides a different person's firsthand account of an intense trip into «Area X,» the quarantine zone surrounding the contaminated lighthouse.

The story is more acerbic than the Austen we know from BBC adaptations, which tend to emphasize the romantic melodrama of the novels over the stinging dialogue, the distance between what people in a highly regimented and ritualized society say and what they feel.

Of course, the unique format of the novel (collected as a series of letters written by the titular wallflower to an anonymous recipient) was going to pose a number of difficulties for any filmmaker, so it was probably smart to hand over that responsibility to the one person who knows the book better than anyone else.

Lili Elbe is a technical accomplishment rather than a flesh - and - blood person, a pure image, an artwork, emphatically a girl rather than a woman, who ends the film resembling nothing more than one of those fragile beauties who die of tuberculosis in 19th century novels.

It works well in New York street scenes and panoramas — such as the novel's celebrated vision of Manhattan glimpsed from the Queensborough Bridge («the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world»)-- but it makes the actors look more like mannequins than people.

He or she has put up a list of some of the movie's parallels to Emma, a cast list that identifies who's who in terms of the novel, and a note advising, «I notice that people who have read Emma tend to get more enjoyment out of the movie than those who approach it as merely yet another teen flick.»

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

Give it time, and one suspects director Hettie Macdonald and her unexpected screenwriter, American Oscar - winner Kenneth Lonergan (of Manchester by the Sea renown), will have tapped into the unique power of a novel that does nothing less than refract English society, mores and values through the homestead of its title.Barely has episode one begun before the family pile of the title is conveyed in careful detail, as seems appropriate given the disparate people who will gather under its roof.

Rather than encouraging impressionable students to read more, these so - called problem novels turn young people into reluctant readers.

Some of my blog posts, Facebook posts and online articles have reached far more people — in a lot less time — than a novel that took me a year to write.

I love it when smart people who think differently than me play with complex data sets and come to novel conclusions.

After finishing my novel, I tried my hand at writing a few short stories for a blog I started, and realized what people have been saying forever, writing short stories is a lot more difficult than writing a whole novel.

While her new novel deals with many of the themes typically explored in Li's writings — assimilation to American life, the lives of everyday people in China, and the damage wrought in the aftermath of China's civil war and turn to Communism — Kinder Than Solitude also contains a suspense element.

Considering there are more smartphones in the world than any other device, people simply aren't using them to read novels.

Less of an «opposites attract» story than one about the very real scars most people carry in the name of love, Knight's novel explores the tender, often uncomfortable territory of life post-loss.

For a novel, tell a story you'd want to read and that seems to have appeal to more than a few people you talk to.

This is Apple's greatest advantage and allows people who love to read graphic novels, manga, comics and magazines a better experience than Android.

People are much more likely to take notice of a funny meme than a paragraph - long posting about your latest novel.

Most contemporary novels are written from first - or third - person perspectives, but many prominent writers (such as Junot Diaz and Lorrie Moore) have written short stories from a second - person POV on more than one occasion.

We tend to avoid people who clearly feel they've «completed» their novel, and just want to do the course to meet our literary agents — we're dedicated to helping writers improve their work, and there's nothing more offputting than someone who already thinks they're the finished article.

- The Guardian (UK) «Taking its inspiration from newspaper reports of a real court case in County Kerry in 1826, Ther Good People is an even better novel than Burial Rites - a starkly realized tale of love, grief and misconceived beliefs.»

But the beauty of First Person is the way it blossoms into a much richer novel than that outline scenario suggests... Both readable and thought - provoking.»

Bestselling author Kate Moretti's minute attention to the way people's brains shift, how the floodgates of all they've been ignoring or repressing can suddenly open, pushes her novel into something more discomfiting than a saga of small - town sins.

The number of cases of academics publishing popular novels rather than scholarly works is small, and most people who do publish fiction publish it pseudonymously....

Graphic novels and comics are more accepted and even embraced as a legitimate storytelling format than before, so most public libraries do supply them, and they are a big draw for many people.

Someone famously said once that reading novels is the best way to understand the thoughts of people other than ourselves.

It's a wild jigsaw puzzle of a novel, and was more mentally demanding of me than I was willing to give at the time, but I can see how many people would have a lot of fun with this outrageousness.

If that person knew I could finish a new novel every two or three weeks if I wanted, they would be shocked and more than likely not talk to me anymore.

A few people, sometimes less than two or three, are in charge of getting a traditionally published novel out to readers.

Second suggestion is to only listen to people who have more than twenty or thirty or more novels in print and who have been in the business for more than twenty years.

More than ever, people need regular doses of the kind of hope, optimism and happy endings that they get from romance novels.

(As a self - published author, I can truthfully attest that more people have read my novel, Sonata: A Fantasy in One Movement, than read what my kids and I wrote on my sidewalk).

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She's really lucky to be surrounded by crazy and interesting people who will, more than likely, become characters in that novel (whether they like it or not).

But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth - the ultimate betrayal - that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her...

People like Hugh Howey who has turned his own life into an unfolding video narrative more interesting — in my view — than his novels.

If you have a favorite thing of mine, leave a review on Amazon, or Goodreads... sign up for the free signed copy giveaway on Goodreads for my novel Gideon's Curse... buy «Remember Bowling Green» so I can donate the money to the ACLU... the thing that would make me feel the best on my birthday would be to entertain some people, and to feel as if I write — and I talk about that — and it's of more than slight, passing interest to a few of the thousands of folks who follow me between this profile and my author page... Going to put this on my author page as well, and on my blog so it goes to Goodreads, and on Wattpad, where literally tens of thousands of people read my novel Heart of a Dragon for free, and loved it (from the comments) but could not ring themselves to pay the $ 2.99 or $ 3.99 to read the rest of the series... writing is a lonely profession... help a fella out.

Which makes sense: a lot more people want to write a novel than have published a novel and want to start marketing it.

My novel SHERWOOD, LTD has been free on Smashwords since early October and many people tell me they've reported it to Amazon, but it's still not free on the Zon more than three months later.

With its sharp dialogue and philosophical digressions, Chatwin's evocative account reads almost like a novel — some people he included in the book, in fact, accused him of playing fast and loose with the facts, writing more fiction than fact.

While Van Helsing may not be at the top of most people's lists for characters to base a game upon, there's no denying that he does have some great potential for an action - RPG, as the many adapations of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel have often portrayed him as more of a professional vampire hunter than the doctor that he actually was in the original story.

This title is taken from Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels in which the imaginary country of Lilliput is home to gnome - sized people no bigger than six inches.