31.   As polished and finely balanced as a Swiss timepiece, it reads like a cross between James Thurber and Hans Christian Andersen.

32.   At Antica, chef Ruggero Gadaldi has created a menu that reads like the offerings of most other Italian restaurants but tastes worlds apart.

33.   At its worst it reads like a clever exercise in character and point of view.

34.   At his most characteristic, Tosches can read like a cross between the King James Bible and a peep show.

35.   At the Powerhouse Museum nearby, an exhibit of Greek antiquities reads like e-mail from several thousand centuries ago.

36.   At times, it reads like a fable.

37.   Author David Von Drehle combined all of their work and wrote a seamless, reportorial narrative that reads like a political thriller.

38.   At times it even reads like a college textbook, employing the techniques of postmodern theory and frequent references to Plato, Descartes and Shakespeare.

39.   Because gay history focuses so much on proving the homosexuality of the famous, some scholarship can read like a romance novel.

40.   Basili advises students to avoid common mistakes such as writing an essay that reads like a resume or one full of cumbersome words straight from the thesaurus.