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As mentioned earlier, it's well worth listening to Neil Gaiman's novels and stories on audiobook format, especially when the author is reading them. Have a hunt for his reading of fragile things if you're new to him. While much of it is difficult to find, I'd also recommend looking for Christopher Brookmyre's work in audio format, if for no other reason than to hear the Glaswegian vernacular, which loses a little something when transcribed to the page. It also hightens his humour a fair bit. Richard Dawkins is a good reader of his own material, and it becomes much clearer when he is exercising his dry wit as he says things aloud, something that can sometimes be lost in writing as delibarate offensiveness (especially in the case of The God Delusion). He reading of On the Origin of Species is also masterful. I was glad to be introduced to Kurt Vonnegut's work via audiobook, in Stanly Tucci's reading of Breakfast of Champions, the laconic and detached manner of which perfectly suited the tone of the prose. Finally, nothing so far has supassed Wayne June's harboiled tones in his readings of H.P. Lovecraft. The matter of fact intonation belied an undercurrent of threat, which was wisely left isolated after being spoiled by corny audio effects and music in the earlier volumes of his audiobooks. That said, his voice still managed to elevate them to brilliant effect. And a warning about the otherwise superb production of World War Z, the book was quite noticably abridged for the audio version, dropping approximately a quarter of the content, which is a real shame.
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