The last chapters of Mr Guralnick's meticulously researched book read depressingly like a coroner's report.
By far the most popular book, read by more than 13,000 children, was about the Titanic.
I have never bought a book, read a poem or seen a play because it was by a Pulitzer winner.
Sections of this book read like a midnight cri de coeur, a grasping after dignity and gravitas.
Reviewers noted, not with the intent to praise, that the book read more like a novel than history.
And almost every photographer in this book — read the pages for yourself — survived a harrowing number of close calls.
It's a bit like being illiterate and having a book read out loud to you.
Rebecca was somebody else's character, a character from a movie or a book read long ago.
Moreover, voice-over is added, so a child can have a book read to him.
Parts of this book read like an anthropological report on an alien species.
A profound book read in adolescence reverberates in ways that no one can begin to compass.
