red5-626 said:

Well for Kevin J Anderson I like the Jedi Academy.
Dark saber not so much.

As for combining PT with OT Tatooine Ghost was the best.

I will point out that Most of my SW books are on tape and CD

So they are abridged but I am a vary slow reader, and it cake forever to get threw book just reading them.

Now the tapes I got of Dark Empire that was good.

Word to the wise: While I enjoy a lot of audio books and find some superior to the actual "text" version... the Bantam 3 hour abridgements of Star Wars books really suck.

I read and liked the Thrawn trilogy when it originally came out. Then SW started to suck and I started to get tired of it. Then I couldn't remember whether Thrawn was actually good, or if I was just drinking the Kool-Aid(TM) at the time, so I got the audio books. I found them to be mostly terrible, but I know sharp abridgements can have that problem. So I convinced my wife to read aloud (in the car, or whatever) the Thrawn books with me and I enjoyed them as well as I did in the early 90s.

So... give the actual books a try sometime.