Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sinclair Lewis' novel Elmer Gantry, written 80 years ago, still has relevance. Like Minister Gantry, today's televangelists are con artists who profit by selling God to their gullible followers. Gantry had no shame, and neither do these people...
...react to critics who say romance novels are trashy? -Rachel Malaguit, Manila I think it is narrow-minded for anyone to say this entire genre is trash or fluff. In every genre you'll find trash. Not every romance [novel] published is wonderful-it would be very naive for me to say so. Some may edge over to trashy, but it really is in the eye of the individual reader...
...write a novel, how do you pick your topic? Joey O'Donnell, SOUTHBURY, CONN., U.S. For novels, I start from an image that strikes me, without knowing what will happen around that image. In each novel, it took me six to eight years to find out the answer. For The Name of the Rose, the image was of a monk poisoned while reading a book. I was fascinated by the idea...
...party's leading contenders for the first time ever answer video questions submitted by users of the trail-blazing website YouTube. The debate was originally supposed to have been held months ago, but had to be rescheduled after several campaigns balked at participating because of reservations about the novel format...
...parents are so willing to get rid of him is never entirely clear.) In adolescence, Guanglin makes it to college in Beijing, but through no help of his original family members, to whom he returns when his adoptive father kills himself. Things only get worse, and the lachrymose novel quickly becomes a caustic indictment of Confucian familial ideals, an exposé of the "deadness of family life," and, by extension, the ills of a charred, paternalistic nation. Guanglin's nonlinear narration may be detached and muddled at times, but his - and Yu's - unvarnished vision of China is a welcome...