Sentences with phrase «than adventure novels»

But The Piano Tuner is more than an adventure novel, delving as it does into questions of identity, moral responsibility and perhaps most centrally, the effect of desire on perceptions.

Not exact matches

This episode also brings more puzzle elements than before, making it feel more like a traditional adventure game than an interactive graphic novel.

I have looked and looked and the only movies I see advertised are either lame, cliched, ridden with dubious but prevalent social themes or else resemble the depraved road show from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, except with more lewdness than what that nineteenth - century novel dared portray.

Although the novel The Hobbit reads younger than the LOTR epics, this tale (actually the first of three movies based on the slim book) of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his adventures with a clutch of dwarfs fighting to regain their kingdom isn't one for junior audiences.

If the premise already triggers your aversion to the contrived application of disease and highway adventure to matters of the heart, Italian director / co-screenwriter Paolo Virzi's adaptation of Michael Zadoorian's novel — his first English - language film — won't add anything to your wariness other than trite situations and shallow insight.

Sahara is based on a novel by adventure author and real - life ocean explorer Clive Cussler, and as with many films which are based on books, the movie bites off way more than it can chew.

The size of them is interesting — more square shaped than Viz's standard books and considerably thinner, more similar to the way they used to publish Pokemon Adventures during its first graphic novel run.

Sean Ellis has authored and co-authored more than two dozen action - adventure novels, including the Nick Kismet adventures, the Jack Sigler / Chess Team series with Jeremy Robinson, and the Jade Ihara adventures with David Wood.

The article itself is humbling in and of itself, but the news is also big: I'm co-authoring a novel with none other than the legendary Clive Cussler, appropriately monikered the «Grand Master of Adventure.»

- Kirkus Reviews «Teens looking for adventure, and a story in which a kid shows himself to be smarter than most of the adults around him, will find this novel wholly satisfying.»

Russell Blake is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than 50 action / adventure and thriller novels, including two co-authored works with the legendary Clive Cussler.

And what is urban fantasy, other than an action / adventure novel set in a fantasy world?

''... the darkest and most unsettling installment yet... It is a novel that pulls together dozens of plot strands from previous volumes, underscoring how cleverly and carefully J. K. Rowling has assembled this giant jigsaw puzzle of an epic» - The New York Times «Rowling shepherds her hero's arduous trek to maturity with her customary grace and good humor, though she has infused her story with more bone - cracking and blood - spattering than may be tolerable for many of the young readers who have followed Harry's adventures so far.»

Experience the journey of a level - headed building contractor who suddenly realizes he is destined for adventure and was meant for much more than an ordinary life in The Girl from Tir - na - nOg, the new novel by Gary Hope.

Although the 6» size is novel and of course even more portable than the 7», and the extra features and cheaper cost are very tempting, I decided to forgo this adventure.

Become invested in a novel - sized epic adventure — a script of over 300,000 words and more branching dialogue choices than you can shake your boomstick at await!

Title: 2064: Read Only Memories Available On: PS4 (Eventually Xbox One and PC) Publisher: Midboss Developer: Midboss Genre: Visual Novel, Point and Click Adventure, Indie Official Site: 2064: Read Only Memories Release Date: January 17th, 2017 Where To Buy It: PlayStation Store, Steam There's nothing better than a modern version of an old favorite.

The result is games like Woka Woka, a superficially familiar casual puzzler adventure that's packing several twists to make it far more novel and addictive than it looks.

This is more of an interactive novel than it is a point and click adventure making The Pillars of the Earth a great title to wind - down to, providing you with more dialogue and cut scenes than involvement.

She talks to adventure novel enthusiasts Fay Weldon and Tom Holland and critic Ekow Eshun about the scientific and cultural legacy of these novels, and asks whether they are more than ripping yarns of derring - do.

Choose - your - own adventure novels stay interesting longer than a typical paperback.