darth_ender said:
That's the one I found, the dry, no sound effects, Chuch Benson recording. It's not awful in my opinion, as the story is more important to me than the sound effects. However, the reader bugs me at times, and the sound effects do greatly enhance the story. I'd love to get the new one when it comes out.
Since it seems many are not that into the audio books, perhaps you know, skyjedi2005. On Wookieepedia we are told that there is an unabridged version of the OT novels. However, I cannot seem to find this anywhere on Amazon, for download, or anywhere else. I already have the radio dramatization and the abridged version, but I'm really interested in the full story. Do you know if this is a mistake on Wookieepedia, or if there is truly an unabridged version? If there is, where would I find it?
Jedi is very very abridged, empire and star wars are almost unabridged but not really since there are edits and things left out.
They edited out the reference to more than one dark lords in star wars for instance, and the prologue journal of the whills was taken out. In jedi Luke hearing from Ben that Owen was Ben's brother was also excised.
These are the time Warner versions and i have them on CD but the quality is not much better than the cassette versions its an almost waste of the format.
The edits were obviously done to either bring the books more in line with the finished film and cut all the deleted scenes, or to match Lucas saga vision of the time. I would like an edited and unabridged recording of these as well as The Daley Han Solo Trilogy, and Splinter of the Minds eye.
Since wiki is open to edits their are often many incorrect and unsourced statements.
The Statement on there for instance that the Larry Mckeever versions were for the blind like Chuck Benson is wrong, they were the unabridged books on tape series. There is also a third recording not mentioned is DK Books of Boston i cannot remember the narrator but i think its a kids series thing but still unabridged. Done for children who had difficulty with reading or as a read along edition, i believe but i could be wrong on this but it is certainly not a books for the blind edition.
With the Upcoming unabridged there will have been 4 done for Heir. But this will be the first CD version and first Lucasbooks version the 25th anniversary recording, not sure if the notes from the redo will be included probably not.