21.   Already, the list of potential free agents reads like an All-Star roster.

22.   Although her knowledge of Africa lends a certain cachet, in these sections the novel occasionally reads like a travelogue.

23.   Although the book often reads like a novel, Raphael makes a compelling public policy plea.

24.   And across the street, on another moribund building, is graffiti that reads like community activism rhetoric.

25.   An FBI agent said the case, which already reads like a soap opera, would have still more twists and turns.

26.   And I could read him like a book.

27.   And if it reads like a pitch on QVC, that is what it mostly is.

28.   And new software programs allow workers to download their phone messages into their PCs and read them like e-mail messages.

29.   And rhymes have virtually disappeared from the lyrics, which can read like unfiltered diary entries.

30.   Arranged like a diary, taking the reader chronologically through the events of each day, the book reads like an unauthorized biography.