Sentences with phrase «something about a novel»

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But aviation insiders are quick to point out something about Rutan that is often overlooked in the excitement over his novel prototype vehicles: Rutan has yet to turn one of his experimental vehicles into a successful commercial aircraft.

If you picked up a book instead, you could be benefiting more by learning about something new, reading something inspiring or simply relaxing with a fun novel.

He was doing a book tour, and we were hanging out and talking about his graphic novels, and I had told him that I was interesting in maybe collaborating with him on something if he had any pages he didn't know what to do with to send them over to me, and I would try to write some songs or something.

But when the Rev. Paul F.M. Zahl read several of King's novels, he learned something new about the author: There's a lot of faith behind his fright.

This romcom novel is about a 20 - something American called Rosie whose happy life as a newlywed suddenly takes a terrible turn, leaving her bereft in a foreign land (Oxford, England) with few friends or family around her.

That the coming - to - be is a coming - to - be or becoming of something seems necessarily presupposed if one is to talk about the coming - to - be of something novel.

This romcom novel is about a 20 - something American called Rosie whose happy life as a newlywed suddenly... More

thats novel in a recipe... something I have never thought about till now — if you have an egg allergy would that be all eggs or just chickens?

No one here cares enough about your opinion enough to have to scroll through five long posts just to see something novel and intellectual from a different poster.

Will Self who has shut himself off in Jura (where George Orwell wrote the novel) is sure to have something interesting to say about this as usual.

It's a novel approach to reform, which at this point is something the governor would rather not be talking about.

«There's something novel, something really good about this,» says Richard Crowder, an electrical engineer at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

While you want to share more information about yourself in your online dating profile, most people don't have the time to read something that looks like a novel.

Leave something to talk about on your first date and leave the novel out of your profile

Somethings In The Air is a dating sim visual novel with about 25 endings and many twists and surprises..

Calling all fans of said genre, looking for something like... Game title Nekojishi is a visual novel about feline beast - men, Taiwanese folklore, and the pressures and consequences that come with navigating the world of gods and

Though there is something infectious about the old - fashioned innocence of Mark Waters» comedy, which broadly updates the 1938 novel by Richard and Florence Atwater while retaining its sweet amusements.

There is something special about Garland's script, based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer, especially as it relates to self - reflection, disdain and even romance.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

The drama stars Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve and Olivia Taylor Dudley and is based on the best - selling novels by Lev Grossman about a group of twenty - something friends who discover their magical abilities and ward off evil.

It's something where, if it's a novel or if it's a short story, you need to know what it is you're trying to distill about it.

I think about great adaptations of novels like «The Shining», which I guess Stephen King doesn't like because he saw something different in it.

Kill List (2011) was a dingy one - last - job crime picture that evolved into something wholly unexpected and creepy; Sightseers (2012) is the funniest movie ever made about a murder spree; High - Rise (2015) totally got J.G. Ballard's hermetic banality (even if that concept was never enough to sustain a whole novel in the first place).

by Walter Chaw There's the seed of an interesting idea in Neil LaBute's Possession — something traceable to A.S. Byatt's melodramatic novel of the same name: the film's one clumsily extended trope that it is about keepsakes and the desire for memento mori and memento amor as it manifests amongst intellectuals.

This is something that's repeatedly alluded to in Melissa Mathison's screenplay (based on the novel by Roald Dahl), but it's pretty easy to forget about that detail as the film moves from one non-child-devouring plot point to the next.

He would seem to be much more at home as the main crony of James Bond than as anything one could remotely find in a tale about the scariness of a ring of online predators, and his plot, which would necessitate the world's most inept law enforcement to pull off (and we have that here), feels like something borne out of a trashy crime novel.

Kechiche (who, along with Ghalia Lacroix, adapted the screenplay from a French graphic novel by Julie Maroh) may not get everything about lesbian sex right, but he understands something important about the way people fall in and out love.

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There's something wonderfully delicious about a large - budget Hollywood production of Vanity Fair — the 19th - century novel whose aim was to skewer a self - important class that reveled in its own preening excess and adhered to its own inverted version of morality.

Loosely based on the novel «All the Way» by Andy Behrens, the screen version is a rather raunchy adventure reminiscent not only of Judd Apatow's recent offerings but also of such shock genre staples as The 40 Year - Old Virgin, Road Trip, American Pie, There's Something about Mary and The Sure Thing.

Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives was first filmed in 1975 by Bryan Forbes — a dark thriller about the lengths the men of the town of Stepford will go to in order to keep their wives in line, with a chilling score by Michael Small; it wasn't a huge success at first but went on to become something of a cult favourite and had its own kind of cultural impact.

But now we have something else to look forward to — he's writing a followup to his novel about people in a dark future who are obsessed with 80s video games, Ready Player One.

His brother (Messina) teases him about his future, his agent (Mandvi) is pushing him to write a new novel, and his therapist (Gould) just wants him to write something, anything.

Jack wastes little energy worrying about the principles of his calling — it's his job, he's good at it and he takes as much pride in his handiwork as a gourmet chef might show for a faultless beef Wellington — and in Booth's novel he actually believes he's providing something of a public service, a critical cog in the gears of history.

There is something highly appealing about this atmospheric CBS series, based on a popular novel by Catherine Marshall about a young woman who, after a brief stint at college, arrives in Appalachia in November of 1912 to establish a mission school.

There's something untranslatable about the last line of a novel.

He's got a common touch, no question, something forged in the time he spent rolling up his sleeves, joining labour unions, hitchhiking across the country, and writing vital, committed novels about it all.

Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith about the relationship between an unhappy wife (Blanchett) and a twenty - something department store employee in 1950s New York, the project was previously to be directed by «Boy A» helmer John Crowley, but he's bowed out due to scheduling conflicts.

There's something about Patricia Highsmith's novels that seems tailor made for high - calibre movie adaptations.

Lindsay was famously cagey about whether any of her dreamy, ethereal novel was actually true — something which intrigued director Peter Weir so much he decided to keep the ambiguity going by adding a similar introduction and postscript to his 1975 film adaptation.

Given the national discourse at the moment, a film like Monster — adapted from a lauded young - adult novel about a black Harlem teenager navigating a biased justice system — seems like something that could demand serious attention.

November Third William Lewers In this sequel to the novel Gatekeepers of Democracy about elections and poll keepers, William Lewers, M.A.T.» 66, looks at the struggle that his main Gatekeeper protagonists face when they realize something is amiss with the voting machines in their district and they need to do something about it.

The rear seat design is a tip off to something quite novel about the Sportback, the integrated ability to carry skis is something found in many European cars and makes sense with this vehicle as it was designed and built in Germany.

For it to have book marketing value, it has to have a direct link to your book or something in your book (for example, the author of a novel or children's book telling Raggedy Ann's «real» story could create Raggedy Ann Day), and you have to spread the word about the special day you've created (publicity is a good option).

There is something wonderful about gluttonously devouring a novel in one sitting.

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands By Chris Bohjalian Vintage • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780307743930 Something entirely different from the talented Bohjalian in his 16th novel: a dystopian tale about the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown.

There's something quentissentially hopeful about young adult novels that feature teenagers on crosscountry roadtrips.

This novel reminded me of something important: that it is a lot easier to write an engaging novel about someone (s) exceptional, with extraordinary talents and / or dropped into unusual circumstances.

But Hornby knows a little something about screenwriting as well as sitcoms: He adapted Cheryl Strayed's Wild for film, and his novel About a Boy is now the basis for an NBC siabout screenwriting as well as sitcoms: He adapted Cheryl Strayed's Wild for film, and his novel About a Boy is now the basis for an NBC siAbout a Boy is now the basis for an NBC sitcom.