Audiobooks are great, and do help me get through the books I'd like to read, but not badly enough to prioritize my time in a way that would actually let me read them... and they make me actually enjoy my ~1.5 hours in the car each day.

But they're not the same as actually reading the darn thing.

In the case of the Thursday Next books (highly recommended) the first three are very well read by the reader and probably actually make the audio version superior to the print one. However, they change readers in book 4 and it all goes to heck.

RE: Scoundrels. The reader does a wide range of voices for the characters and I'm not sure it's enhancing my enjoyment of the book. Sometimes, after a line reading by the reader, I reinterpret the line in my head and decide that I would have been more impressed had the line been read a different way.

Also RE: Scoundrels- There's a prequel reference AND a special edition reference in chapter 2. Minus 1 star.

I think most know that this book "takes place" betwixt ANH and ESB and that it also features Lando... which sort of casts long shadows on their meet-up in ESB. Also, I was under the impression from the start of ESB that Han had stuck with the Rebels from Yavin to Hoth, so this sort of flies in the face of that too.

But it's sort of fun. I think the real payoffs will come later, so I'll be patient for those... I guess it's a good companion piece to Splinter of the Mind's Eye where you can see what Han got up to whilst Luke and Leia and Vader had a romantic weekend without him, in the world where ESB was never made.