As host of Reading Rainbow he was one of my childhood heroes, and I been listening to his podcast LaVar Burton Reads, where he....reads. As he puts it the only thing the short stories he selects have in common is he loves them all.
I like some of the stories more than others but I've never heard a bad one. LaVar does a fine job presenting the stories word for word, though it does weird me out to hear the Reading Rainbow guy/Geordi La Forge say bad words, lol.
Anyway, check it out if it interests you:
http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/ (http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/)