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Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1: Heir to the Empire
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Publisher's Summary
Heir to the Empire begins five years after Return of the Jedi. The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet back into a quarter of the territory it once controlled. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and have shouldered heavy burdens in the government of the new Republic, and Luke Skywalker is the first in a hoped-for new line of Jedi Knights.
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- AmazonCustomer
- 05-07-2017
Broken Reading
What would have made Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1: Heir to the Empire better?
Reading the full book rather than just the 4th of the book as it recorded here
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Denis Lawson?
Marc Thompson, would have done better justice to the masterpiece that Timothy Zhan had written
What character would you cut from Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1: Heir to the Empire?
None
Any additional comments?
This recording must be redone with the full book being read as key elements are either lost or completely ignored in favour of the time constraint.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Jordan
- 04-09-2015
great book. its a shame its no longer canon
great book. its a shame its no longer canon. look forward to the sequels. may the force be with you
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Cheryl
- 01-11-2008
Good, but why waste time creating abridged books?
The story is ok and well performed, but I just don't understand why publishers waste time creating abridged books. By not needing to use your eyes, your reading time is greatly expanded. Abridging is a travesty to begin with - even made worst by doing it on this format...and then not even offering the unabridged version. I don't see how any abridged book can get higher than a mediocre rating.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- J. R. Zagar
- 15-04-2008
Unabridged Please...
An unabridged version of this book does exist. I've borrowed it from my library (they had to order it from another library). While the Thrawn Trilogy is one of the best of the Star Wars books this abridgment is quite horrible, its not that its even read poorly, there is just so much interesting stuff that was cut out that it goes at breakneck speed that makes you ask how in the hell all these things happened so quickly. Please Audible, get the unabridged versions, and soon.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Ian
- 14-05-2011
awful narration
This is a fantastic novel, like all Zahn's Star Wars books, but the audio production is just terrible. The narrator's voice isn't a simple monotone: that actually might have been preferable. Instead, the voice of every character in every scene is made to seem as nonchalant as humanly possible. Whether it's Admiral Thrawn, Han Solo, Luke, or whoever, they generally come off as if they couldn't care less. Incredibly this even applies to several of the action scenes.
That, combined with the narrator's habit of mumbling the last part of most sentences, made this audio book unendurable for me. I gave up about 2/3rds of the way through...and I love Star Wars audio books.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Andrew
- 16-05-2011
horribly edited
they really need to make a verion of this that includes more than 30% of the actual book
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Marc
- 12-05-2011
Not as good as unabridged
This was sooo short compared to all the rest of the unabridged novel...a bit disappointing...
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- Thomas
- 06-12-2015
Icky performance
The reading is irritating. With pauses that are
too
long.
And the VOLUME THAT IT IS READ in is annoying with LOUD LEVELS IN THE READING AND THEN SUDDEN
shifts to softness
AND BACK TO LOUD.
Thumbs down.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Sean
- 12-09-2009
Love the book, dislike the abridged part
This trilogy by Zahn is what brought Star Wars back into our collective conscience. Why then are his audio books abridged? I love the story, and I love being able to listen to it on my iPod at the gym, but slightly disappointed in not being able to listen to the entire work as Zahn originally penned it. It's still a good listen, even though it leaves out half the book. It would be awesome though, if there were radio drama style, unabridged, versions of his books.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Rick
- 20-08-2008
GREAT BOOK - Wish it was unabridged though
I own all three of these stories in first edition hard cover and love reading them - great story. Last month I listened to a serious book so this month I wanted something lighter. The read is enjoyable and the soundtrack audio is well placed. My only frustration is that the audio book is abridged. There isn't anything in the description that says that it is abridged. This was very frustrating. Still a great audio book - so I would recommend it - just be aware it is not the full book.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Jeremy
- 30-06-2007
One of the worse Star Wars audio tapes
I have listened to most of the series, and have been very happy. Great production with the audio talent, side effects and everything else you would expect from a Lucas based novel. This whole book was flat. The story really offers no interest, no sound effects to immerse you into the story. This really must have been a budget production for them. If you have enjoyed Star Wars audio books in the past, don't waste your time on this one.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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- Kindle Customer
- 26-01-2019
Needs another Narrator.
Someone with a British accent narrating something is ok I guess, however, when you have someone that is compelled through social association to add letters and/or syllables into words where they are not supposed to be you get something that is less than contiguous. I had to go through all three books twice just to comprehend what was being said, since very little was comprehensible throughout all three books since very little was pronounced correctly and it took time to associate what was said, with what was known the world over. Just a warning to others of the annoyance factor of trying to associate what is known with what is spoken in narration that is not in continuity with what is already known about the genre.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- D. M. Gannon
- 19-02-2017
Poor.
I read the original paperback many years ago. This abridgement has torn the book to shreds. Not worth the credit. Would advice everyone to avoid.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- A. R. Cousins
- 02-06-2014
By "Abridged" they mean "Cut to the bone".
What disappointed you about Star Wars?
It was a great story, but they've left only the bare structure of it - the details that gave it life are gone. Such a let down.
12 of 13 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Ollie/mrs T.
- 24-06-2018
Abridged version, bought it without realising it.
This is the abridged version of the novel, it guts it down to a measly three hours. Don't let this be your first experience of this great story.
The superior, non abridged version is sadly unavailable in the UK. Seeing as it's been on the site since 2011 it will probably never be available in the UK. Deeply disappointing :(
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- james farr
- 05-09-2018
way too much cut
Hated how some of the best bits of the book were missing, butchered in short.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-06-2018
Classic
Great series hope the stuff under Disney is allowed to be upto scratch and as immersive in the expanded universe
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Jake p.
- 07-05-2018
A Great Start
An excellent start to a trilogy Im longing for more of, a true Star Wars book.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Luke Al'Thor
- 05-04-2018
Imperial assessment.
A few incorrectly pronounced names and planets, but otherwise a very good story. Totally worth a shot.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Dan
- 17-03-2018
Amazing
I liked thrawn from the rebels TV show and now like him even more! the narration was also superb
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- Evgenij Valentinovic Klenin
- 31-12-2017
The perfect antidote to Disney's "Last Jedi"
For those disillusioned with Disney's "Last Jedi", this is a perfect book / audiobook to enter the original Expanded Universe (EU) of Star Wars.
An exciting beginning to the Heir of the Empire / Thrawn Trilogy, which also adds new interesting characters and dimensions to the original Star Wars Story. I can't wait to read / listen to the second part of this trilogy!
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Matthew elliott
- 15-06-2017
loved it.
Was awesome fun I loved the story and the music was an awesome touch. Looking forward to listening to the next one.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful