Question about SW audiobooks

I've been wanting to re-read the NJO for a while but I don't have access to my books, so I recently acquired all 19 audiobooks to put on my ipod. I was wondering if they are all unabridged. I want to know before hand if there are any scenes not to expect. Thanks.

 

I was planning on making a thread like this

So I'd like to know about the quality of the audiobooks these days too. I used to buy them pretty frequently back when Bantam was doing them and I remember they were pretty heavily abridged. That's why I stopped buying them.

 

The quality of the audiobook is good, in terms of voice-quality. The guy they have doing it is quite good.
Crappy, however, in terms of content-quality.

The one and only one I got was Destiny Way because I found it two weeks early, but it was so heavily abridged that there was some good material lost. I believe Star By Star missed the whole invasion of Coruscant, according to people who got it.

 

Oh poo

 

Revenge of the Sith was unabridged and fun to listen to. Talented voice-actor they've got, there.

 

Well, that's good. I love that book and I think I may pick it up.

 

You should. I like that guy's Anakin much better than Christianson. Someone out to go dub in his voice over Christianson's lines sometime.

 

So I just put 2 gigs of mp3 files on my ipod for nothing? How could SbS by missing the entire battle of coruscant? Geez, how do they justify the price if their so heavily abridged? Thank god I didn't pay for 'em

Edit: I just listened to the first 1/4 of Vector Prime and as far as I could tell the only scene missing was when Nom Anor leads the droid execution. The reader is very good and does the various voices very well. Still I wish it was unabridged.

 

Is Revenge of the Sith the only audiobook that's available unabridged?

 

I have a verrry old He-Man cassette. When I say cassette I'm mean the jurassic ones, the disk ones where the barbed stick touches it to make music. Starcraft's expansion showed it, so I guess it's still kicking until then. Anyway, aside from listening to George Martin read aloud a chapter of mad Damphair's intro, they're the only audio stories I've heard. It was a bit funny to hear Martin's dry voice---I forgot he was American! Struck me as British. Must be the beard. Brit beards. So I ask this each audio book thread, what are they like in general? Vocal monotones, content, sound effects, etc.

 

Well, in Vector Prime, the same guy seems to voice all the characters, but he actually does a decent job. Some OT music is thrown in there for space battles and of course they add the lightsaber sfx. Its odd how the SbS running time seems to be shorter than even the EoV books, so i'm sure its heavily abridged.

 

What about female, alien and droid voices?

 

Same guy. For RotS he did a passable job as Yoda, and although the female voices were pretty bad, that's to be expected.

 

It's because they're abridged that they aren't more expensive. $20-ish for the abridged, versus $60 for the unabridged ones they've done.

The other two prequels are also available unabridged.

 

Oh, great--unabridged audio adaptations of a novel adaptation of a motion picture.

TC

 

I can't believe they would cut the battle of Coruscant, the most important EU event since the first battle of Bilbringi.

 

He did a Yoda voice? So did a Warcraft 3 Orc Grunt, and quite well too.

 

Jonathan Davis is the reader on most of these Star Wars titles. He does a decent job and after awhile you kinda get used to him--Like a creepy uncle. (j/k)

If ya can't read it (which is the best, btw), then I recommend downloading "Dark Lord" in addition to "Labyrinth of Evil" and only about 1/3 of "Dark Rendezvous".

Audible.com is a pretty sweet website. There's a promotion by going through amazon.com, where if you buy a one year membership package for $9.95 then your first audio book is free. Other stuff is really discounted with the membership as well. So go give it a whirl....

 

How much of Dark Lord is missing from the Audiobook? I'm tempted to download the Dark Lord and Outbound Flight audiobooks but if their heavily abridged i'll wait for the paperback release.