Sentences with phrase «story than a novel»

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.

Killing Them Softly, by contrast, is sly and sharp, yet somehow slender — more cinematic short story than novel.

It's a whole lot easier to publish a short story than a novel: there are thousands of literary magazines and contests in the US, but only five major book publishing houses.

Not exact matches

Based on the best - selling novel by Ayn Rand, «The Fountainhead» tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect who prefers to struggle rather than compromise his artistic vision.

We are informed at the beginning that the signal was never decoded, and so the novel is less a story of scientific triumph than a series of ruminations on hermeneutics, the hubris of scientists, and the sociology of academic cohorts.

Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country could be described as a «Protestant» novel; it comes closer than any other novel I know to telling a story of justification by grace through faith.

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

I had never read the novel from the psychological angle — much preferring, I will admit, Cardinal Wiseman's Fabiola for the story element (which is, admittedly more Georgette Heyer than Edward Gibbon).

It is more creative than science fiction, the love stories are more intense than romance novels, and the Bible, when rightly understood, is more colorful than a comic book.

After all, he's a man who has published more than 50 novels including that evergreen high - school requirement Fahrenheit 451, and written hundreds of short stories and a host of screenplays, including the adaptation of Moby Dick for legendary director John Huston.

Unlike Lewis» novels, the book is not a Christian book, and so the story has less of a «moral» than the books by Lewis, but is still creative, imaginative, and well - told, but did leave me confused in many areas.

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

We've all had the experience of repeating a dramatic story so many times that the events seem dead, as if they came from a novel rather than real life.

Because Reinisch works with so many collaborators on multiple different aspects of membrane trafficking, her work is «more like thematic collections of short stories than a full - length novel,» she says.

In a lifetime of movie - going I've been happier with movies adapted from short stories than movies adapted from novels, and movies adapted from novels more than those made from plays.

Based on a novel by William Chamberlain, Imitation General has a bit more story depth and character development than the average WWII service comedy.

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.

A loose adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's much stranger novel, Annihilation offers a better experience than a story.

Disobedience, based on a novel by Naomi Alderman, cuts deeper than your standard forbidden - love story, largely because the actors are so attuned to their characters» anguish.

Adapting Michael Faber's quite unconventional novel in a decidedly unconventional way, Glazer and his co-writer Walter Campbell jettison more than half of source material — the half that contains explanation as to what is actually going on — to focus on female predator at the centre of the story and her discovery of morality?

Ultimately it adheres mostly to the «harem» genre rather than the story - driven visual novel style which we are used to.

This meant chopping out huge chunks of Rowling's tome - sized novel, and rather than detracting from the story, it enabled a more concise and enjoyable film to be made.

You can expect to see a new take on the classic tale because the story is geared more towards the sci - fi realm rather than staying completely faithful to the novel.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

However, this is more than a performance, it's a very humorous (and I mean laugh - out - loud funny) and often very touching story, adapted from Louis Begley's novel.

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.

Scholastic will publish script books of both «Cursed Child» and «Fantastic Beasts» in the US, but unlike previous entries these two stories are original to stage and screen, respectively, rather than novels.

Even The Price of Salt — her second novel, adapted last year, by film director Todd Haynes, as Carol — was more than merely a lesbian love story (certainly a bold enough literary statement for 1952, when it was first published), occupying, in its intense focus on desire and its consequences, similar territory to Highsmith's thrillers about killers.

The few stories that King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman are arguably more violent and cynical than his other work, and science fiction novel The Running Man is one of them.

I have to admit right now, I've never read the graphic novels and so going into the screening of this action movie I knew absolutely nothing about the story of these four men and the lovely, mysterious Aisha, other than they were being played by actors I enjoy seeing on screen and that they were on a mission of revenge.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»

Days of Being Wild and Chungking Express are both episodic — closer to story collections than to novels — and even this movie, which unlike these two doesn't derive from material originated by Wong, breaks up much of the story into discrete segments.

Although they have frequently employed Western styles, True Grit is the Coen Brothers» (A Serious Man, Burn After Reading) first attempt at the true Western genre, quite traditional in its adaptation of the classic Charles Portis story, a novel originally published in the «Saturday Evening Post» in 1968, more in the vein of its creation than the comedy, thrills, and snark we've come to associate with their style.

Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name favors finesse, sparkle, and languid idle in this James Ivory scripted story (based off of André Aciman's 2007 novel) of love, intimacy and longing between two men, and that said, never once does it feel any less than real and heart - rending.

Based on a novel by Ernest Cline and co-adapted by him too, the story unfolds in the inevitably dystopian future of 2045, where rubbish - strewn trailer parks are now arranged vertically and where our young hero, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)-- like so many others who live in «the Stacks» — prefers to spend his days immersed in the Oasis rather than confronting the misery of real life.

by Walter Chaw J.K. Rowling is more plotter than writer or editor, more rambling fantasist than disciplined storyteller — explanation there as to why her Harry Potter novels aren't classics so much as very popular stories for children.

Ready Player One is based on Ernest Cline's best - selling 2011 novel and tells the story of Wade Owen Watts (Tye Sheridan), a young man living in a dystopian future where the general population spends most of its time in the virtual reality landscape of OASIS rather than the real world.

McEwan — doing double duty at the festival with Richard Eyre's film The Children Act — claimed that the notion of a film version was far from his mind while he worked on the original story, but noted that the slimmed - down format of the source made it simpler to adapt than a full - blown novel.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

Its story - within - the - story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an everyman whose wife and young daughter are abducted on a Texas highway late one night, is far more compelling than its framing story, in which Amy Adams mostly reads an unpublished novel (which tells the abduction story; it was written by her character's ex-husband, also played by Gyllenhaal) and looks miserably rich.

In addition, her talents are thought to be alarmingly broad: She writes novels and short stories, paints, sings in bands, directs movies and documentaries, wins Italian versions of the Oscar, embraces full - frontal nudity in print and onscreen, and can speculate with more than coffeehouse intelligence on excess, God and redemption.

Based on the best - selling novels by Suzanne Collins, the «Hunger Games» movies have always been a little smarter and a little more assured than their many competitors in the young - adult arena, and now the story comes to a close in «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2,» a sequel that, in a crowded field, winds up being one of the year's most satisfying popcorn movies.

Flashbacks are essential to almost every story, particularly novels, but if not handled right, they can bring more problems than solutions.

Blogs: Rather than have students write essays about the novels, stories, and articles they read during the year, have them create and maintain a blog.

Many critics have misinterpreted this as a requirement that high school English teachers spend no more than 30 percent of their class time on poetry, short stories, novels, and plays.

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.

The result was a recognition by Amazon that novels should receive more than short stories.

I think the reason I decided to write dystopian fiction for my first novel, is nothing more than the story I wanted to tell fits into that category better than others.

Further, that short story is more likely to qualify for the royalty than the novel because that magical 10 % mark can be reached before the reader actually gets to the story.

This powerful novel is more emotional than political, but as a story foreshadowing a very possible future, it will strike a chord with readers of fiction and nonfiction alike.»