Not novels or absorbing non-fiction books you like to read on airplanes.
And you can do it with great novels and not-so-great novels.
Believe it or not, fantasy novels (with magic and zombies) can also display a highly sophisticated understanding of real-world politics.
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But Pratchett's novels are not best-sellers in the US and these films could mean a breakthrough into this huge market.
Heavier than most hard-bound novels and not as malleable as a paperback.
Mawle - who is partially deaf and dyslexic - explains that he did not read Lawrence's novels as he finds reading "quite strenuous".
And we know it may or may not be great for reading novels and also possibly dangerous for those who read in bed.
Ian Fleming may own the copyrights to the original James Bond novels, but not the idea of a dashing international spy fighting super-villains with gadgets and glib remarks.
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Sceptics point out that Swedish justice (crime novels aside) is not generally known for scheming ferocity, or for the permanent silencing of America's foes.
China's liberalisation has made Mr Cha's novels more popular, not less.
He is not just that staple of political novels, the talented son of an artisan, who becomes a socialist and then goes on to turn himself into multi-millionaire, government minister, owner of the New Statesman and (an essential accessory, this, in the laddish culture of New Labour) part-owner of a football club.
In the end, which of the two novels sells more copies may not matter to corporate parents Bertelsmann and Pearson.
Most homicides are impulsive, not the cold calculated affairs of Agatha Christie novels.
"This is a list of high quality literature that includes five novels in translation which readers might not otherwise get the opportunity to read", said Dublin Lord Mayor Naoise O'Muiri.
In his memoirs he describes a life not far removed from the fantasies of his novels, peopled by friends called Fluff, Bumble, Hilly, Fram, Monkey, Liddie, Pansy and a dentist called Sussman, who is for ever fixing Mr Powell's teeth.
When the hard-nosed behavioral scientist James March taught his famous course at Stanford using War and Peace and other novels as texts, he emphatically was not teaching a literature course.
Lucille Fletcher was once asked her views about sex in novels, and said that much contemporary literature was not really to her taste.
It is astonishing to me that, although I had no knowledge of game theory when I was writing my novels and even though the field did not exist at the time.
When faced with a collection of quite thick, perhaps intimidating novels, Banville's is very accessible - easily readable and not too weighty.
There are also many new novels that, like To Kill a Mockingbird, illuminate social issues not by writing through the broad strokes of history but by developing powerful characters who battle events over which they have little or no control.
But there has so far not been a complete shift to reading on screen, with 53% still reading novels in printed form.
You do not have to believe in the death of the author to know that, when transferring novels to films, the one character who is almost never successfully cast is the writer.
In her novels as in her letters to Sartre, however, Beauvoir suggested that things were not always that simple.
In the prison library, where inmates most ask for Westerns and romance novels, employees scour pages of returned books just to make sure there's not a message or code that could be passed along to another inmate.
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Novels, plays and symphonies are different, in that their existence as works of art does not depend on a particular physical instance.
In actuality, James is a shy, normal-looking lady in her 40s who speaks so softly that I had difficulty hearing her from backstage not exactly what you'd expect from a woman who has sold 30 million copies of her erotic novels in just six months.
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