Supposed "director" and "producer" of this audio presentation cited at the end of the audiobook: what in the HECK were you thinking?! Did you LISTEN to it? DID you direct Ms. For the days Terry McMillan sat in a studio recording this, she just wasn't in the mood and not at all a fan of her own work. Suddenly shouts chapter headings." Perhaps the story itself is amazing, but listening to it is painful, shocking, heartbreaking, and that destroys the ability to hear/feel the story itself. My actual quick-notes on the narration during and after listening for as long as I was physically, emotionally, and psychologically able to: "She sounds bored, perturbed, pauses weird, suddenly speaks again, shouting. A narrator, especially an author-narrator, can't be THAT BAD, can they? Yes. Based on the reviews, I had to check out this audiobook. when a publisher doesn't dissuade the author from narrating her own work when she either just doesn't have the performance/acting/reading ability or just doesn't enjoy her own work enough.
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