The phrase "intricate book" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a book that is complex, detailed, or has many layers of meaning.
Example: "The intricate book delves into the nuances of human psychology, making it a challenging yet rewarding read."
Alternatives: "complex book" or "detailed book".
In "Slash: Paper Under The Knife," I was drawn to the stunningly intricate book art of Su Blackwell.
LIKE its setting, the mouth of the Ganges, this is a sprawling, sluggish and intricate book, tinged with a melancholic and fragile beauty.
"A brilliant book that is highly recommended". "Certainly the best and most intricate book ever written about how crucial, barely definable words in the Russian language... combine to shape the Russian character..
She's "a miniaturist's miniaturist", Ahlberg says proudly, as he shows examples of her delicate pictures that will illustrate another intricate book with movable parts and a tiny book buried deep within.
Their intertwined tale, which toward its end sings praises of the intricate Book of Kells, is knotty with words like "pubococcygeal," sentences like "According to Margenau's theory, human consciousness could be compared to a field of probabilities in a Fock space, defined as a direct sum of Hilbert spaces," and pages of tendentious analogy between quantum physics and biological processes.
In this dense, intricate book, he returns to the history rather than the myth of his country, examining its dark corners and the consequences of actions by characters who cannot suddenly sprout wings and fly away from their destiny, as García Márquez might have it.
I have known him for the awesome games that he has developed, as well as the many philosophically intricate books that he has published over the years.
"Her singular vision has brought new life to the coloring book world, and we're delighted to collaborate with her, providing both fans and new 'color-inners' with even more gorgeous and intricate books".
But "The Cove" is a less intricate, nuanced book than "Serena," perhaps because it is tethered to a real and freakish historical occurrence.
If it sounds as if effectively truncating such an intricate, provocative book into a 93-minute movie would be nearly impossible, well, the film version that has its premiere Saturday night on HBO proves the point.
The prose is intricate (the book's long opening sentence is a kind of anthology of English punctuation) and, especially when deployed from Cyrus's viewpoint, its jagged, skittery progress captures the involutions of our mental lives — the non sequiturs, second guesses, qualifications and rationalizations.
