11.   It could be the same message that Darden hopes readers will take from his book.

12.   Like their European counterparts, most Russian newspapers have a pronounced political slant, and readers take it for granted.

13.   Meanwhile, readers have taken the challenge so seriously that there are some who, in New Agish devotion, think the books really are histories of alternative realities.

14.   Most readers will take this book personally.

15.   Once that is done, however, the reader takes only seconds to transfer the data to the Clik.

16.   Readers may take that as entertainment, but Peretti said he wanted them to be spiritually moved.

17.   So readers can take what they like from the smorgasbord of opinions, crotchets and enthusiasms that Epstein serves up.

18.   The end of the story is either miraculous or mundane, depending on how the reader takes it.

19.   The reader must take on faith that the gap is indeed pervasive.

20.   The result of these bold choices is less a play than a novella, a talking book, something that a reader could take in at his own speed.