I can't believe I never noticed this before. If you dig deep enough on Neil Peart's website in the Books section, you can listen to the Professor himself reading an excerpt from each of his books. Credit Andrew Olson for noticing this. Here are Andrew's instructions for reading the excerpts from his Neil Peart blog:

To hear Neil read an excerpt from each of his three published books, do the following:

1. Go to http://www.neilpeart.net.
2. Enter the site.
3. Click Books.
4. Select one of the book images.
5. Under Audio Excerpt, click Play.*

* For Ghost Rider, you will need to wait a moment for the Flash intro to play. After the intro plays, click Listen to Excerpt.

The excerpts are all several minutes long too. Great stuff.

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