Ya I have been told that the abridgements can really suck.

But at the time I got my first audio books it was the only way I could ever have enjoyed them. I read slower then a first grader. It would take me forever just to finish a Junior novel. And I was a teenager at the time. and reading a action seen slow is really boring. So reading has never been that much fun for me I love Stories but reading no I even gave a text to speech program on my computer to read long documents. I can read when I have to but as for reading novels I am still so slow they suck. The words get in my way.

An audio book you turn it on close your eyes and watch the movie on the inside of your eyelids. A Book you have to look at words all the time.

Imagine watching the gout with the sound off and instead you have words like the opening crawl telling you all the dialog as will as the action, composted over top of the hole movie. And Imagine that if you stop looking at the words the movie will stop.