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> I agreed to the challenge only because I was assured it was not unusual for a first-person, non-fiction book to be read by its inexperienced author. But I never met anyone else like that in my three days at the studio. I met only professionals.

Ray Bradbury narrated some of his own audiobooks. Hearing him was a mixed bag though.



Sometime the quality from an author's reading isn't the best, but it's always interesting to hear a work read exactly as it was conceived.


For fiction, it's a different skillset that requires taking on multiple voices. For non-fiction, I usually prefer the author to be the reader.




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