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title: "Cal's Best Finds — Is it worth the hours, and is the narrator any good?"
description: "One writer's whole catalogue, and what survives the trip into audio."
url: "https://calsbestfinds.com/format/author-spotlight/"
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# Author Spotlight

One writer's whole catalogue, and what survives the trip into audio.

## In Author Spotlight

[Author Spotlight](https://calsbestfinds.com/format/author-spotlight/)[Narrative Nonfiction](https://calsbestfinds.com/category/narrative-nonfiction/)

### [Neil Strauss in Audio: Two of the Big Ones Are Abridged](https://calsbestfinds.com/shelf/neil-strauss-author-spotlight/)

I have read all of his own books in print and heard three of the recordings. The audio catalogue is patchier than the bibliography looks: two of the best-known are abridged, one has no audiobook at all, and the only unabridged one is a full cast.