Sentences with phrase «than genre»

Often authors focus on genre and forget that their book is about more than genre, pages, or cover art.

Here are twenty - three science books that are better than genre fiction because they're true.

The first one introduced a lot of key concepts for FPS gaming but every subsequent title has been somewhat generic and derivative rather than genre - leading.

It's actually a mistake to make your cover way different than the genre to which is belongs.

Increased interest in your book over a 48 hour period may be a sign that you've broken through to a larger audience than your genre warrants.

When players discover an item, they automatically learn new crafting recipes, making the crafting part of the game a bit simpler and more streamlined than its genre counterparts.

Obviously, my target audience is substantially smaller than a genre author's, therefore, I am grateful for my small successes.

Critics Consensus: The Transfiguration tells a quieter, more deliberately paced tale than genre fans might expect, but for those with the patience to let it sink in, it offers its own rewards.

In fairness to Girard, I must say that he realizes very clearly that the key to the whole problem is found in the Prologue of John, but he writes in the genre of sociological theory rather than the genre of theology, which prevents him from speaking as freely as he might of the Incarnation of the Word of God in human history.

Critic Consensus: The Transfiguration tells a quieter, more deliberately paced tale than genre fans might expect, but for those with the patience to let it sink in, it offers its own rewards.

Creed is more than a money grab, more than a genre film, and more than a step into the mainstream for Coogler.

Mamet tosses a few diaphanous complications into the tepid stew to portray Joe's decision as something less than a genre convention — the desperation of which ironically points to just how stock they are.

It's pitched at young adults, and the stories tend to be somewhat more sophisticated than the genre magazines aimed at young teens and pre-teens (Shonen Jump, Ribon, etc.) Many of the Morning series that have been licensed in English have been critically acclaimed, if not top sellers: Planetes, the story of junk collectors in outer space; What's Michael?

It's pitched at young adults, and the stories tend to be somewhat more sophisticated than the genre magazines aimed at young teens and pre-teens (Shonen Jump, Ribon, etc.) Many of the Morning series that have been... [Read more...]

Genres which appeal to hip or tech - savvy consumers (science fiction, thrillers) may also sell more e-books than genres whose readers tend to be late adopters of technology (again, romance.

Bound format / price is probably a factor in the genre question as well as in its own right; genres that rely predominantly on paperback sales (for instance, romance) may sell fewer e-books than genres whose sales also include hardcover distribution, for the reasons given below.

But the U.K. - Jordanian - Qatari coproduction, directed by Iranian - born Babak Anvari, has more than genre tropes on its mind.

Idlewild is a more down - tempo affair than its genre - splitting predecessor, but it wins points with stone - cold psychedelic soul classics such as «Mighty O,» «Peaches» and «Hollywood Divorce.»

It's something action role - playing game fans looking for an experience more up - close and brutal than genre entries of the third - person variety should have a blast with, and one of the more memorable products of 2009.

Deep Impact confines much of its horror to television news reports and has a more brooding, thoughtful tone than this genre usually calls for.

«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.

Haysbert, sporting a bald head and a thick salt and pepper beard, is especially good, doing more acting than the genre fare for which he may be best known.

Resident Evil isn't much more than genre clichés tossed into a blender, lifting plot devices and themes straight from films like Aliens, Dawn of the Dead, and The Matrix.

The rescaling this time has more to do with franchise logic than genre.

His Dutch films have a more artistic, impressionistic temperament than the genre films he made in America, and even those are distinguished by the genres they embody and subvert, whether thriller (Basic Instinct), science fiction (RoboCop, Starship Troopers), or a composite of both (Hollow Man, Showgirls).

To prove smarter than the genre while producing an effective genre product just the same — something Wes Craven couldn't quite pull off with his New Nightmare (though it was a good try).

Non-fiction writers may have it easier in this regard, as specialized expertise is a more natural value proposition than genre fiction.

Still, literary fiction is by nature slower and more deliberate than genre fiction.

Other than the genre categorization, we also sort our eBooks based on the release date.

- Booklist «Olshan (The Conversion), known for his literary fiction, delivers a crime novel more likely to satisfy mainstream than genre readers.»

Writing crime fiction can be more challenging than some genres, because you often have to carefully think through and develop a plot concerning the crime and the criminal before you're able to build a story around those elements.

It would be nice to see more literary fiction in the Kindle store though, but there's no denying that it earns less money than its genre relatives.

I'd agree with you, Christian, I see less of literary than genre in that list — well - done, certainly, but I wouldn't classify these shows as literary.

Literary fiction is an odd genre because it's taken as more serious and artistic than genre fiction, but it doesn't really have a specific classification.

As always, more interesting than genre classifications are specifics of procedure, and Tad Wiley, Laurie Fendrich, and Luke Gray have adopted distinct approaches to the central issue of abstract narrative: revision.»

For a start, for large chunks of A Knight's Tale, the period seems less important than the genre.

But it also annoys me when all female authors are classed as «romance» for reason of gender, rather than genre.

Far from being horror - comedy, What We Do in the Shadows extends to a further audience than genre fans and could possibly become This is Spinal Tap for horror fans.

This doesn't make him «better» than his genre counterparts Jax or Balrog, but shows the many narratives posibilities ignored by routine might - makes - right representations of Black men.

I'm no sucker for horror films, but I can tell you that this one, straddling the gore / suspense divide and leaning to the former, is only a bit better than the genre's average output.

I'm not actually sure why I jumped into the thriller / crime / mystery genre other than those genres are what I enjoy reading and watching more (at the moment), and I really had one story that needed telling.

What started as a way to use leftover «pulpy» paper to create cheap stories evolved into a style (more than a genre, says Tommy), with purple prose and «over the top antics, characters, and resolutions that made readers believe in the amazing, the fantastic, and the incredible.»