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Depends. There are a number of authors who read their own stuff. Robert Reich reads his own; Bill McKibben does, too. Sometimes they do full-blown ridonkulous productions; in prepping for a screenplay (and in avoidance of Swine Flu) I drove the slow way up the coast to my wedding, listening to the first five books in the Left Behind series. Those, they did a full-on old time radio treatment.
The audiobook treatment of Dan Simmons' Hyperion series is about five different voice actors. While I hated the hell out of Hyperion, I loathed the approach they took. And I've avoided Vernor Vinge's "Fire Upon The Deep" because the narrator sucks so hard. Meanwhile, some readers f'ing rawk. Simon Vance has read a bunch of Richard K Morgan's stuff and he hits it out of the park. Meanwhile, four out of five of the books in The Song of Ice and Fire have been read by Roy Dotrice: http://www.roydotrice.com/ And then, of course, Audible gave away this for Christmas two years ago: