Sentence Correction

568. Originally published in 1950, Some Tame Gazelle was Barbara Pym’s first novel, but it does not read like an apprentice work.
(A) does not read like an apprentice work
(B) seems not to read as an apprentice work
(C) does not seem to read as an apprentice work would
(D) does not read like an apprentice work does
(E) reads unlike an apprentice work


please advise why e is wrong i feel the ans should be E not A

IMO D

IMO A.

Like is used to compare 2 nouns ..