In the book, 'Roy' ends up being an amoral shell of a man who seems only interested in his own narcissism related to the 'heroic legacy' he'll leave to the game. M., it's a great book and totally well-written but.nothing like the movie story version (especially the end), and for that reason, I hated it. So.I was pretty excited to read 'The Natural,' and with props to Mr. Years later, I saw 'The Natural' with Robert Redford and Glenn Close, and loved the story! (This is one of the perhaps dozen movies that I have seen in my life that I will watch again no matter when it comes on, unless my wife is home and in possession of the remote!). Wow, did this book surprise me! I have been a fan of Bernard Malamud since-well, since I was like eight years old and discovered my love affair with baseball! The elementary school I attended had a small school library, and there was a book of baseball short stories that included (at least) one of Malamud's. Such a very different story than the movie version and in my opinion and life experiences.much more how someone with a life filled with opportunities are always destroyed and winds up with next to nothing. This title showed up as available about two years after I made my request and I’m very glad it did. The point of all that is to say.I hope my request was one of many who wanted to hear this book in its original written form by its author. The first books on cassette were done the same way in case anyone likes trivia.

The player which didn’t record had a switch to allow users to hear side A track 1 then in reverse hear side A track 2.

I’ve been with many audiobook companies going back to when audiobooks were read badly, no performance at all and only a available from a few companies for the blind on reel to reel tape requiring a special open reel player to play these recordings which used all four tracks on a simple stereo recorded as individual monophonic voice tracks. I asked him to please forward my request for this book to be read and out into their audiobook catalog since Amazon already had it in Kindle format. I contacted Audible and politely asked one of their CS managers if they knew of this book arriving in audio sometime soon? The nice fellow told me he had no information in the Audible database showing a forthcoming audio version. My research showed this book had NEVER before been in an audiobook format of any kind. After reading that review, I did a search on Audible to see if this book was in audio form. And that person went on to give an explanation why.

I love the movie and had not known of the book the movie version was based on u til I happened across a movie review by an excellent reviewer who stated in his opinion, Hollywood ruined this story.

The natural by bernard malamud