Star Wars: The X-Wing Series, Volume 1: Rogue Squadron

Henry Thomas's performance is good, but some of the charters sound too similar. It lacks the details that make it a really good book, as the abridged story just leaves out too much of what make the book so much more enjoyable and complete.

It was horrible. Too much sound effects drown out reader. Story was too much abridged.

Yes if they are like this one.

Soften the sound effects. Do an unabridged version

Unabridged version is a must. Sounds effects should be very soft in the background not over powering drowning out the reader.

Yes, if presented unabridged.

I do not believe the issues here were Stackpole's as I enjoyed the original book itself. Rather, the story presented for the audiobook was so hacked up that much of the good detail and character development was lost.

I am not familiar with Thomas' other work. The reading here was rather well done. If there were moments where some characters sounded too similar, it can be forgiven with there being so many characters to deal with. Overall, I liked his delivery, and consider it the high point of this rendition.

Disappointment. I had not realized this was an abridged version when I bought the audiobook. Even beyond that, there was a particularly poor job done of reducing the work. I thoroughly enjoyed the original paperback, yet this script lacks the character development and suspense from the novel. Had I not already been up on the novel itself, this would have been a dull story careening from one barely connected fight to another. Frankly, I expected much better, and will refrain from buying any further abridged versions of this series.

The background noises and effects were entertaining, and could have added a lot to an unabridged version of the book, but they are not enough to save this chopped up script. This is the most disappointing audiobook I have purchased to date, and makes me leery of buying any more Star Wars audiobooks.

the abridged version is so bad.

this is to good of a story to even present this chopped up P o s.

the original is great. this shortened version is easy too short. I wish they would make an unadvertised version of the series. if gladly purchase that again

unabridged maybe.

an unabridged star wars book... old republic or something.

he was fine. not Mark Thompson, but a good second.

nope.

I am so confused. I don't think they did a good job of abridging this book... I have heard good things about the actual book, but this was really lame. I think they cut out all of the jokes and banter and dialog and anything else that would have made this a story and left only the facts. reader was good. too bad the abridging sucked donkeys.

An unabridged read.

Ambiant sounds during scenes.

Pronunciation accuracy of specific 'Star Wars' names, ships, planets, etc. Obviously the reader hasn't been a fan for long, if at all.

I've read this series a few times and think there is plenty of substance for TV or movies. Hopefully not by the sci-fi channel... They can't match the CG or the casting to keep up with the original movies.

One of my favorite Star Wars books, narrated perfectly and only marred by abridgment. No book should be abridged.

Narrator can't be taken seriously. His Ackbar voice is like a terrible Sean Connery Impression. The story I found to be too rushed and difficult to keep up with. I wanted to be sucked into this series but it just didn't happen for me.

Narator was ok but the amount of soundeffects they crammed in the recording was distracting.