R. C. Bray

Well, I've been recommending the book to anyone who reads, and sometimes those I don't know do. I checked my daughter's library system for the book, and they had the print, but not the audio version. I borrowed the hardcover, to see how it reads in print. It seemed that I could hear Watney's voice, but the technology passages were more 'in-your-face.' I know they are essential to the story, but I think listening helps to contextualize them and keeps the focus on the characters. So I borrowed the audio from my library again to lend to my daughter. She has almost the same commute time as I do. Before I let her have it, I started listening again, and ended listening to the whole thing again. My own CD copy is on its way to my mailbox now. I rarely purchase audio books, but this is one to own.

Now I can keep it in circulation as much as I want.

I went to R. C. Bray's page this morning and it was pretty pathetically bare. I researched a bit, adding some links and some of the ~125 titles he has narrated, those in my library system. He's done horror and zombie tales, and crime fiction, and some non-fiction too. I won't be going those directions, but I will be trying some science fiction by Steve Perry and Weston Ochse and maybe a Hopalong Cassidy western.