11.   And the book becomes a national best seller and the author a star on the talk-show circuit.

12.   As he moves to Vietnam, the US desert and Kuwait, the book becomes a conventional historical argument and travelogue, and loses its originality.

13.   As we wonder how Johnson will fit these old songs into her new story, the book becomes a kind of Easter egg hunt for adults.

14.   Banned in Britain, the book became a runaway bestseller everywhere else.

15.   Both books became best-sellers.

16.   Both books became blockbusters after small first print runs.

17.   A not-funny book that later became a not-funny movie.

18.   After the books became bestsellers, auditors discovered that the club had blundered in its calculations, and the prodigious gains were largely illusory.

19.   Alas, neither Reilley nor a facsimile ever does, and this book eventually becomes tiresome as a result.

20.   But his books have become contemporary classics.