Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars)

"Robin: Star Wars is a franchise that will never stop, including in audiobooks. Mary: I have served on a lot of different audiobook committees including the Notable Children’s Recordings. There is no deep dark secret about the deliberations of that particular committee: it’s open for people to come in and listen, so I’m not breaking any big secrets here. So I’ll just say that there was a Star Wars book, years ago, that made our Notable Children’s Recordings list. You might say to yourself, ‘ Star Wars, that’s not fine literature!’ But I always like to use a seesaw analogy for audiobooks. There can be a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that everyone recognizes as the finest literature, that gets a narrator who brings it down to not-so-good. The very best book in the world can have a terrible production and if you listen to it, you would think it was a terrible book. Conversely, there is the perfect balance. A lot of the time, that’s what the Audie Awards are going for: a book that is a great representative of its genre—because the Audie Awards have so many different genres: romance, business, etc—with perfect narration and audio representation. Support Five Books Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount . Then again, there are the occasional books that are not the world’s best literature, but the audiobook production makes that book sing and turns it into something that brings a smile to your face. And the Dooku: Jedi Lost Star Wars book, with the sounds of the light sabres and the absolute re-creation of those voices from the movies, just makes it a joy to listen to."