I hear, this is a good book. At least, reviews say it is, so it must be, because they say so. The problem is, I didn’t read this book, but listened to its recording instead. So what happens is, when an author reads his own book, it sounds really terrible. That’s because, an author is good at writing, and not so much at reading. So they have this terrible habit of reading, just a few words at a time, in order to make it very slow and clear, and easy to understand. What they don’t get is, when they pause, they just make our brains pause, and when they pick up in the middle of, the same phrase, we shake our head trying to figure out, what it was they said, and we miss most of the sentence.
Therefore, it is very difficult, to listen to an audio book, that is read by the author. It is sort of like reading paragraphs, that have commas stuck throughout the sentences, in weird and awkward places. Authors, take note. Leave the reading to the actors, and take the time you save, to write us something intelligible.
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