51.   All his stuff reads like a fireside chat in the company of a wise old storyteller.

52.   All three of these solidly researched biographies read like novels.

53.   But her prose is lucid and sharp, and her stories read like the diary of an evictee.

54.   But how serious can they get about a guy whose story reads like a script meant for Jethro Bodine?

55.   But his prison file reads like a textbook example of a turnaround from social misfit to rehabilitated convict.

56.   But his biography reads like a medical chart.

57.   But no book this encyclopedic can be expected to read like a romp.

58.   But in real life, no one is laughing about these odd occurrences, even though they still read like a curse.

59.   But standing investment objectives for the pools read like mutual fund goals and all the money is in fact invested in Fidelity funds.

60.   But Sunday read like a last chapter, not part of a continuing series.