Sentences with phrase «than the fiction books»

My non-fiction books cost more than the fiction books.

Not exact matches

Isaac Asimov, a legend in the science fiction genre, authored more than 500 books.

Though some shelves contain stacks of books, others have printed aluminum plates that mimic books — a feature that has prompted criticism that the much - touted space is «more fiction than books.»

The prophet Muhammad and the Quran are essentially fiction written by misguided souls not much different than prophet Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon.

Other than that, it is the biggest book of fiction out there.

Because science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other than a work of fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.

As most people find fiction more accessible than nonfiction, I think the book offers a great opportunity to demystify one of the world's great leaders and prophets.

In the more than 40 years since that move, Berry has written over 40 books of fiction, poetry, essays and biography.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

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.

I am assuming you are an adult and most adults don't believe in magic, so why would you think that actually happened when there is no evidence that it happened other than a book that is equally old, has been revised many times and is filled with fiction.

She is the subject of numerous books, movies, and even a musical — often more fiction than fact.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

No wonder feminists have been reluctant to feel rewarded by Bloom's designation of J as a woman (such as it is: «my personal fiction» — no sooner is the ink dry on her Book of J than she is attacked and mutilated by every soul drawing a pious or orthodox breath.

I just did not believe any of what I read or had read to me anymore than I believed any other book of fiction with so many metaphors, parables and supernatural BS.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.

If your child is not interested in facts and non-fiction, there are plenty of fiction books based in particular historic settings which (in my experience) give a better understanding of history than many text - books.

Genres, rather than books: science fiction has never appealed; pastel - covered chick lit, whose promise of escapism rapidly becomes irritation.

In this classic book Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics, where truth is often stranger than fiction, to explain in laymen's terms the principles that control our universe.

WORLD building is at the heart of great science fiction, but it can be tricky at less than book length.

Asimov, whose phenomenal literary output totalled more than 400 books, began writing fiction for the American «pulp» magazines in the 1930s.

Known as a prolific author of more than eighty books with twenty - two New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than forty languages.

I'm a voracious reader and work in publishing, so the amount of books I read per year is probably more than the average person, but I primarily read fiction.

Based on the tell - all book «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made» co-written by Sestero and Tom Bissell, «The Disaster Artist» is one of those stranger - than - fiction stories that very few people would believe if it hadn't actually happened, but here we are.

Annihilation is a demented science - fiction comic book of a movie that makes less sense than a butterfly mating with a buffalo.

In my opinion, both the book and the movie versions of «Fifty Shades of Grey» (originally «Master of the Universe,» a «Twilight» fan fiction penned by Snowqueens Icedragon, who has since adopted the pen name E.L. James) have generated far more attention, money, and drama than they're worth.

It's been nearly 50 years since François Truffaut directed an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (and more than 60 years since the novel was published), but with poorly - written slash fiction now running rampant, HBO is looking to thin the book herd a bit.

There's a fair bit of light fiction that plays much more winningly on screen than between book covers.

That aside, with space war and aliens, this is much harder science fiction than the relatively relatable, grounded stuff of «The Hunger Games,» and it may be trickier to capture the right demographics, especially as the book isn't a recent bestseller.

Though a Native American named Squanto did really exist, did learn English, and did play a role significant enough to land him in history books, the hero portrayed in the film is even closer to folklore than historical fiction.

In one stranger - than - fiction occurrence, Albert attends the premiere of the film «The Heart is Deceitful,» directed by and starring Asia Argento, based on her book, but is banished from the red carpet, while Savannah, as «JT,» basks in the limelight.

Tackling a seminal work of fiction always presents a filmmaker with a unique set of challenges, even more so than book adaptations in general.

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award - winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction.

the shift also needs to be made to more non-fiction books rather than just all fiction.

Some of the books are fiction and some non-fiction, but the focus is on learning skills rather than on the books» content.

Please note, however, that you will have a difficult time finding Swift's essay in school libraries that have been aligned to the Common Core because the proponents of the Common Core seem to think that so - called non-fiction is more important than fiction... which is why I am spending much of my time running between libraries and book stores moving George Orwell's 1984 from the fiction to the non-fiction section.

We look for books that are unique, providing readers with something other than the standard commercial fiction already lining bookstore shelves.

After more than a year, the Full Fathom Five Fiction Contest has fully come to a close with the release of the winning book, DEAD IN BED by Bailey Simms.

Jane Friedman, too (http://janefriedman.com/) has also suggested that in much genre fiction (Romance in particular), authors spend their energy being prolific — they assume that each subsequent book will be better than the last, because we improve with practice.

233 of the 600 + literary agencies in the United States (more than 1/3) accept submissions for multicultural or ethnic books (a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books)

Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).

But that doesn't mean that it's any more efficient than the rest of fiction and book publishing.

This app has been requested for a number of years and authors who publish their fan - fiction on Wattpad can now design their own book covers more intuitively than ever.

People have a tendency to believe that the first book of yours they read was also the first book you wrote, so many readers who were introduced to Liz through Eat, Pray, Love (there were more than 8 million of them) neglected to notice that she had already written three other books before that, two of them fiction.

But it's a fun book, to be sure, and would make great Halloween reading for those who are bigger fans of conspiracy theories, myths, legends and world history than of horror fiction.

During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and more than a hundred stories for «The Talk... (more)

(By the way, women's fiction is more literary than romance; romance book covers usually sport busty women and bare - chested men.)

Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than twenty - five books of stories, nonfiction, and fiction, including the Weetzie Bat books, her series of magical - realism novels.

Maybe soon all this book gaming will start to piss readers off when there's hardly any good books to read any more, then they'll go looking for writers who stuck with it and write good fiction, rather than just pumping out crap and then gaming the system.