I liked the book very much, but the audio worked even better for me. The original was no doubt told aloud more often than not, and this version has an authentic feel. One of the most compelling things for me about this story is how it is the very first novel ever discovered and still we humans are the same over all that time and distance. A lovely story. The scholarly afterwords and appendices were not so great aloud. 3/23/10 ETAI liked the scholarly afterwords much better this time through.