单词 | doorstopper |
例句 | Lynch is the last man to provide any answers but now, at the age of 72, he has opened up – sort of – in his 577-page doorstopper of a book. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z So, I switched gears and instead of getting another epic fantasy novel, I did a big doorstopper historical fantasy. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z But if life’s distractions are keeping you from finishing a doorstopper, why not start short and build your endurance? Dear Reader, Meet Your Match: An Advice Column for Book Lovers 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. King has written many doorstoppers, but “Carrie” is one of his shortest novels. ‘Carrie’ Is Back. Like a Bloody Hand From the Grave. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z His kinder, gentler approach succeeds in making George H. W. Bush a more sympathetic — and more complex — figure than if the former president had written his own doorstopper after all. Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The most complete form of “Songs of Surrender” — standard on streaming services, and a “super deluxe” four-LP doorstopper — includes 40 songs over nearly three hours. Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing at a Time’ Is No. 1 for a Third Week 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z As the subtitle suggests, some of this material has circulated in bootleg form; the DVD footage, from Germany and Sweden, was featured in one of the recent Legacy doorstoppers. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z This is the ambitious premise shaping this doorstopper of a book that reframes the history of the human body and of human culture, from deep time until the present. Shattering myths about women and evolution 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z But those two doorstoppers are still no match, at least in terms of length, for Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa: Or The History of a Young Lady.” TikTok inspired me to tackle a nearly 1,500-page literary classic 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z A 720-page doorstopper of a book by a writer I had not come across. A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara novel heads to London stage 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Updegrove’s book provides a succinct but absorbing look at key moments in Kennedy’s time in office and provides a counterweight to some of the doorstopper biographies that have been published over the years. Review: ‘Incomparable Grace’ succinct, absorbing look at JFK 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z But I began to suspect he was up to something slier in the course of this 800-plus-page doorstopper. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Catton was determined not to be too precious about making cuts or changes to her own material, boiling down her great doorstopper of a novel to about 300 screenplay pages. How do you adapt an 800-page novel? 7 years. 300 drafts. Plenty of crying. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z An unpretentious distillation of human history that mixed anthropology, sociology, politics and geography, Yuval Noah Harari’s doorstopper, Sapiens, found favour with readers keen for a digestible long view. From The Big Short to Normal People: the books that defined the decade 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Book four, the first of the doorstoppers, marks the point where the series really takes off. The 100 best books of the 21st century 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z The villain from Stephen King’s “It” terrified when he was left to childhood imaginations in the author’s 1986 doorstopper. In scary times, Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise looks to frighten anew in 'It' 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Gravity’s Rainbow is set in Germany, England and France, and large parts of his other three doorstoppers, V., Mason & Dixon and Against the Day, also unfold in Europe. Thomas Pynchon at 80 – eight reasons to celebrate his birthday 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The long process still resulted in an enormous doorstopper. Robert Gottlieb: the editor who changed American literature 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close delivers a doorstopper of a third novel that catches a Jewish American family in a moment of personal and geopolitical, crisis. Fall books preview: the best American writing from Chabon to Safran Foer 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It caused a wild spike in sales for the book that inspired it: Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton As to how many people who bought that doorstopper made it through all 832 pages, statistics are unavailable. Sixteen ways Hamilton transformed theater – and the world 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The glory and curse of the book, though, is that it’s a doorstopper. How to Achieve Your Reading Goals This Year 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z “I’m not used to talking about this book,” he says of Purity, which, like his preceding two novels, is a 600-page doorstopper. Jonathan Franzen interview: ‘There is no way to make myself not male' 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z By paying authors by how much their books are read rather than bought, the site aims to address author complaints that authors of short books were compensated as well as those who wrote doorstoppers. Amazon to Pay Some Authors By Pages Read, Not of Books Sold 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Mrs Clinton’s 600-page doorstopper is full of this stuff: micro-revelations which are earnest, dull and self-serving, all at the same time. Hillary Clinton’s bad book 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z As you might suspect, it's a great, baggy, idiosyncratic doorstopper of a book. Nassim Taleb: my rules for life 2012-11-24T12:30:01Z Ms. Bond carries a rubber doorstopper to jam under her hotel door and says she makes sure any adjoining hotel room doors are locked. At a Hotel on Business? Be on Alert, too 2011-07-26T01:30:05Z Year 2000 is a real doorstopper, obese with ads from tech companies and luxury manufacturers courting readers still blissfully unaware that the track they are climbing is part of a roller coaster. Thriving Amid the Turmoil 2010-08-24T16:00:00Z Instead, the 940-page prospectus – a doorstopper almost 3 inches thick – admits that the group directors may decide to sell some of the rights to which they are entitled instead of digging into their pockets. Prudential bosses craft a 'get out' clause over record-breaking cash call 2010-05-18T19:59:00Z He did, and we did, and I had a glass of framboise that packed a hell of a kick and tasted like fizzy raspberry lemonade; and doorstopper fries and a club sandwich. Craphound |
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