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Originally Posted by issybird
I'm listening to One Summer, written and read by Bill Bryson. I liked the early Bryson but had gone off him as a tad full of himself and prone to invention. But the subject matter of this one appealed to me and I figured there wouldn't be much of the personal element. However, the narration is dreadful. Bryson's voice is light and affected with a weird hybrid accent and his intonations are all wrong.
This is the second book I've listened to read by the author (Where Nobody Knows Your Name by John Feinstein was the first) and never again. I may abandon this for the ebook, or at least switch between the two, so I can limit the time spent enduring Bryson's voice.
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Bryson seems to read a lot of his own books, but fortunately there are usually alternate versions. I agree, authors should stick to authoring, and leave narration to the professionals.