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I read Windup Girl. Ship breaker I did audio and you're right, he sucks. There are worse, though. I strongly disagree about text-to-speech. A decent narrator is a thing of beauty. Roy Dotrice's reading of Game of Thrones is sublime, and the Hunger Games are read by Carolyn McCormick, who I'm sure has smaller hair these days: Text to speech will never get there. The last financial book I listened to had a narrator who didn't know how to pronounce "arbitrage." If humans can't even pull it off, robots will always be infuriating. And I own a professional text-to-speech engine. The handwork necessary to make things passable is pure drudgery.