Yet it doesn't read that way.
If this sounds arch – writing about writing, tricksy games with authority and reliability – it doesn't read that way.
This shifting of voices and stories, ranging back and forth in time and place, may sound dauntingly complicated; luckily, it doesn't read that way.
Except that it doesn't read that way at all, because every player gets a unique voice, a distinct personality, his own dreads or goatee or bandanna or earring or lisp or drawl.
But it doesn't read that way to Catholics".
"I'm like, 'I've got bruises because of how hard it was, so I can't believe that it didn't read that way.'".
If "A Man of Parts" does not read that way, it is partly because, as these samples suggest, Lodge's prose is not exactly carefree.
I think it's a shame people say 'I don't read that kind of book', because something like Mystic River is tackling topics as deep as any sort of mainstream psychological realism".
Henson: Yeah, I didn't read that script for weeks.
"There's evidence from when the president was a candidate [that the order was intended to ban Muslims]… but the order itself doesn't read that way it uses national security [as its justification]," Schoenholz said.
