Just got my Kindle copy two days ago and the hardcover from Amazon arrived today. I’m not a fan of fiction and enjoy Autobiographical books instead. Here’s a quick list in no particular order :
The Game - Ken Dryden
Life - Keith Richards
Who Am I - Pete Townshend
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Clapton - Clapton : The Autobiography
Pictures of An Exhibitionist - Keith Emerson
and now 99% True - Paul McGowan
Ok so I downloaded the audiobook and have listened to the first 5 chapters (while driving from Princeville to Poipu in Kauai, perfect setting). So far I am very impressed and entertained! I don’t want to post any spoilers, but I’ll never look at a certain British sportscar the same again…
Listening to it, I’m really glad you decided to narrate it personally, it wouldn’t be the same otherwise. Look forward to finishing it.
Just playing devil’s advocate here but shouldn’t the audio book be offered in DSD?
Chapter 21 and man you have lead quite a colorful younger life @Paul. I did not expect that read… My wife grew up in the Vietnam Nam era protesting in New Haven, CT. That was a whole different time and a whole different mood. Also, lived in Woodland Hills and Calabasas for 8 years and was reminded by many what it use to look like decades ago.
If you notice when I do my videos they are not scripted. I just start rambling off the cuff. When I was in radio, pretty much the same thing unless I had to read an ad or something. So, most of my voice work has been extemporaneous speaking at my own pace.
Reading a book, regardless of who wrote it, and trying to make it sound engaging and fluid—like the spoken word—was really hard. I think the worst part was breathing. When I wrote the book it wasn’t with reading in mind. Long and wordy sentences were carefully
edited down to be as crisp and full as possible for the silent reader, but that doesn’t much help the out loud reader.
Imagine the skill it must take to read James Joyce out loud. If memory serves he’s written some of the longest sentences in all of literature. While I am not comparing myself to Joyce, you can see the problem. We don’t speak in the same way as
we read, yet when one has to narrate the written word and have it sound conversational and natural, it’s really a new skill set.
Near the end of the read I started to get the hang of the breathing. But up until that point, it took a lot of editing to make it sound natural.
I have the greatest of respect for voice actors. The fellow who was going to do the read for me is really famous. He reads most of the Stephen King books, the Star Treks, etc. He’s an audiophile and his name is Grover Gardner.
Watch this YouTube video of Grover reading from a book. He makes it look easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm0MHMdA6fQ
It is not.
Thanks! Let us know what you think.
I can appreciate the challenge. I do a good deal of public speaking. I do not read from a prepared text for exactly these reasons, instead referring only to an outline. Few read a text well, even if the text was created with reading out loud in mind.
Thanks! That makes me really happy. I hope others enjoy as well. Yes, that Austin Healey 3000 was my pride and joy (and nearly my downfall).
Gus begged me to record it upstairs in his studio on DSD. The problem is that after some research, it turns out almost no one buys audiobooks as CDs anymore and even fewer would have the ability to play DSD. Audiobook listening seems to be a portable sport,
which makes sense. You listen perhaps in the car or on a walk.
Hah! Yes, I imagine most people have no idea what I went through on any number of subjects to get here (and I am lucky to be here).
What’s funny about the book is not so much what’s in there (which will raise plenty of eyebrows), but the 99% I left out. 
Indeed. Whenever I speak in public it’s the same way. Reading is really hard. When I think of a film actor reading from a script and then adding in emotions—and then we get to watch their face on film to detect even the slightest flaw in delivery…wow. The only
saving grace is most screenplays are written with the spoken word in mind. In fact, that’s what a screenplay author’s job is to do: take the written word from a novel and rewrite it for the spoken word.
My experience as a thespian is limited to a couple of plays. It is harder than it appears.
What do you speak about when you do public speaking?
Of relevance to this group, I lecture on classical music, and write/speak concert program notes.
Thanks much for the explanation, that was really interesting and I got the problem with breathing! I guess it’s also quite annoying to repeat some sequences repeatedly that didn’t work before.
@Paul I’ve read to chapter 39 and plan to pick up the audio book just cause I like the way you talk
Yeah, the audiobook is awesome. Paul does a lively job of reading it.
Wow! I love it. Thanks, Elk.
Paul, maybe you could make YouTube videos of you reading one chapter a day with PS Audio staff acting out the scenes in the background? 
Thanks! That’s very kind. It’s certainly more heartfelt than a professional reader who never went through what I did.