I know what you mean about that voice. I didn't think I was going to be able to listen to it either at first because of it. I can't understand some of the sentences, but I found that I could understand most of it and the part that I could understand just made me keep listening. It was like finding a gem. If you just listened to the first one you didn't really get to the meat of it. They just kept getting better. I would like to get the book someday too. I'm sure I will get even more out of the book because the voice on the tapes made me miss parts.