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Originally Posted by issybird
The text is the text; how the author interprets it is irrelevant. 
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By the same token, how any narrator interprets it is irrelevant. It's the same text whether the reader sees it or hears it.
You can't really call an author narrating his or her own book an intermediary; it's not an additional person getting between the reader and the author.
I tend to avoid author narrators as well, but for a memoir or autobiography, an author's reading seems to be the norm.