Sentences with phrase «started as a novel»

Co-founded in 2001 by Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, the content discovery service started as a novel idea.

Starting as novel curiosity that only a few on the vanguard even knew about (let alone implemented), to hype that everyone talked about.

Online dating started as a novel idea that gained popularity over time.

It started as a novel by Dennis Lehane and became an overheated tale of menace on the big screen starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Little Big Planet started as a novel new game idea of two former Lionhead Studios game developers.

Not exact matches

If John Grisham could write the novel that started his writing career while holding down a job as a lawyer, you can start selling to customers and clients while holding down your job.

Jeff Bezos, CEO and Chairman of Amazon.com, found help from his wife Mackenzie when starting Amazon, and it was reciprocated by Jeff, who served as an extra set of eyes for Mackenzie's novel manuscripts.

It's just too easy to start with a gibe at The Gospel According to the Son, Norman Mailer's new attempt to retell the life of Jesus as a novel narrated by its hero, the Son of God Himself.

Using biblical stories told by and about Jesus as his starting point, Cox offers a series of wide - ranging reflections on everything from the ethics of in vitro fertilization to the biblical accuracy of the Left Behind novels.

Umberto Eco's maxim, «Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos», which stands as the closure of his novel, The Name of the Rose, (28) is as valid a starting point as any other.

In his thick collection of Waugh's letters, Amory starts off by commenting that the art of writing letters has been «pronounced dead as often as the novel and with more reason.»

As for using cookbooks, I used to feel the same until i just started reading them straight through like mystery novels or «travel guides» if you will!

The film, based on a novel by Moritz Netenjakob, will be shot in his hometown Cologne, the same place where he grew up and started his career as a professional footballer.

Today's urban dictionary takes the definition a bit further, slamming Becky as a girl who's more than just a flirt, but back in 1847, a satirical novel started the whole «Becky» cultural reference.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

«When people again started proposing bacteriocins as novel therapeutics, we wondered if they could evolve resistance,» said Inglis, who is now a research scientist at Washington University in St. Louis.

An emerging strategy in early drug discovery entails using fragments, i.e. molecules smaller than conventional drug candidates, as starting points for design of novel therapeutic compounds.

While some paleo advocates still stick to this original /» pure» diet, most of the big names in the ancestral health community now look at the paleo diet as a starting place for good nutrition in the modern world and typically acknowledge that some red wine, grass - fed dairy, potatoes, and other «novel» foods can be a part of a healthy diet.

J'adore Dior's novel orange; a level of autumnal couture, the buildable pigment starts off as a soft shade, but it can be made richer with a second coat.

As a moody and essentially faithful adaptation of Carr's novel, the series gets off to a chilly yet satisfying start, an adequate entry to a particular genre that features dim lighting, resourceful urchins, a class - conscious tone and the sort of arftul staging of corpses that signifies brilliant derangement on the part of the killer.

It started off a little slow but as it went along it was kind of like a novel that you can't put down.

John Huston's Moby Dick starts out introducing a main character, as the novel does, with the famous line «Call me Ishmael», and then doesn't touch on him any further and begins a tale about a whaling ship.

It's straightforward and hits all the expected notes, although it's frustrating that the film is winding - down just as it starts to get really interesting, when Salinger is pursued by Holden Caulfield wannabes, a weird aspect that persisted for years (John Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, was among those obsessed with the novel).

Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia — not to mention in Cristofer's sophomore efforts Body Shots and Original Sin.

Perhaps a bit too dry or sedate for a Saturday night sleepover sort of horror experience, The Invoking does benefit from at least two performances that are worth enjoying (Miller and Midili); a calm but welcome amount of attention paid to things like mood, tone, music, and atmosphere; and a plot that starts out as the epitome of predictable and gradually grows more novel as we move on.

The one - on - one local multiplayer is amusing but forgettable and while the 8 - bit arcade game Squid Jump is novel, it is best used as just a game you play while you're waiting for the next online match to start.

In Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Frank Langella is heartbreakingly good as author Leonard Schiller, a once - celebrated author forgotten in the years since his last novel and flattered by the attention of an appreciative graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) intent on reintroducing his work to the world with her thesis.

Adapted from J.G. Ballard's 1975 cult favorite novel, this movie starts well, but as the story descends into chaos, the movie follows, losing the thread of what it wants to say and why we should care.

Graham Greene started out writing Brighton Rock as a screenplay, before turning it into his most famous novel.

After decades of stopping and starting, attempted productions that included talents such as Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando, Jack Kerouac's definitive Beat novel «On The Road» has finally been brought to the screen through the caring hands of director Walter Salles and writer Jose Rivera.

The novel starts off as a simple adventure yarn about 13 dwarves determined to kill the dragon who drove them off their mountain kingdom long ago, and gradually snowballs into important events that affect the entire world of Middle Earth.

Yes, just as people emerge from the cinemas from the first screenings of The Hobbit, which started in December, they have been greeted by the news that Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien's novel is set to last even longer when it's released on Extended Edition DVD and Blu - ray this year.

What Moby - Dick, my favorite work of art in any medium, meant to the scornful audiences who ignored it in 1851 is not the same as what it meant a full century later, in the midst of the Cold War, which is when that novel finally started to make sense to the culture at large.

It has been said that Harriet Beecher Stowe helped start the Civil War with her novel, «Uncle Tom's Cabin,» which enumerated the evils of slavery in shocking detail to a nation that had all but turned a blind eye to what was known as «the peculiar institution.»

By the time Sebastian starts cruising Annette, her principled virtue has come to seem as admirable and as potent, hence as sexy, as Kathryn's amorality — which offers at least a whiff of the novel's moral and erotic dynamics.

All four movies start off as if they intend to be just as scary as the novel but then wind up simplifying the issues, either by letting a doomed sympathetic character survive (as in Cruel Intentions) or by sentimentalizing the motives or the fates of the more evil characters (as in the other three movies).

Dreams and reality start to blend together as Baltimore tries to figure out an ending to his novel.

Based on the Stephen King novel (which I have not read), Dreamcatcher starts off as an interesting psychological thriller then quickly plummets to the depths of monster movie hell.

What starts out as a charming, if simplistic, visual novel about a young man joining a school club with four cute anime girls slowly morphs into a fascinating commentary on mental illness, obsession, death, and the very nature of video games and reality.

But there is yet a lot of mileage left to go, with the series covering four other novels, and it will be interesting to see how Cumberbatch's performance evolves as Patrick progresses through the narrative, especially as he starts out so strong (we'll tally up after the series concludes in a few weeks).

When we first meet Willis» character, Paul Kersey, a surgeon here, an architect in the original film and the 1972 novel written by Bruce Garfield, he has the perfect life, a loving, if ultimately disposable, wife, Lucy (Elisabeth Shue, badly underused, as expected), a talented, soccer - playing daughter, Jordan Kersey (Camila Morrone), months away from starting college at her dream school, New York University, and a well - paying, high - status career saving lives at a Chicago hospital.

But even as we are appreciating what is successful, starting with the impeccable work of Irons, Rampling and Schoenaerts, it's hard not to notice that the level of intensity, intelligence and involvement here does not reach the level of classic all - in spy movies like the Bourne films or Tomas Alfredson's «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» and Anton Corbijn's «A Most Wanted Man,» both based on novels by the genre's master, John le Carré.

Created by writer Joe Kelly and artist J.M. Ken Niimura, I Kill Giants was first launched as a limited comic book series from Image Comics starting in 2008, though it was compiled into a graphic novel and released in 2009.

The Handmaiden has had a curious journey to screen, starting life as Fingersmith, a 2002 historical novel of Victorian mores and crime, by Welsh novelist Sarah Waters.

«But if you're Doc, it may all start to get a little peculiar after that...» Now in theaters is the latest from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel Inherent Vice, starring Joaquin Phoenix as PI «Doc» Sportello.

Based on the novel written by Michelle Wildgen, YOU»RE NOT YOU sees Emmy Rossum (THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA) feature as a selfish, self - absorbed college student who changes her ways once she starts a part - time job caring for a lady (Hilary Swank — MILLION DOLLAR BABY) who suffers from ALS (a form of motor neurone disease).

Based on actual events documented in Mark Bowden's novel, Black Hawk Down attempts to document the Battle of Mogadishu, which started as a mission to capture lieutenants of the Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid.

This day - in - the - life tale, based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, starts out coolly elegant, the stylish imagery in balance with Firth's exquisitely delicate performance as he navigates just another ordinary awful day, months after his lover accidentally abandoned him.

With as much of Sony's standard product placement as social commentary, The 5th Wave does little to inspire you to start reading the novels or to believe that The Hunger Games was merely the start of a golden age for YA novels and feature films.

It was John Huston's first film, a tough detective story based on Dashiell Hammett's 1930 crime novel, and boy did he start as he meant to continue.