Star Trek Audiobook - read by Zachary Quinto

After seeing a good review of the audiobook of Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the new movie, I thought I'd pick it up and see how I liked it. I liked it very much indeed, which isn't surprising, since Foster's adaptations have always been a favorite.  What was amazing, though, is that the boys loved it - listening to it for three hours at a time on the way to and from camping, rather than insisting on "a movie". 
I have to say that Quinto was an outstanding reader.  He had different voices for all the characters (the boys' favorite was the roars of the Drakoulias and the lobster monster) and all were good. 
And this gave me another chance to compare the noverlization to the movie's screenplay, and I have to say that with one exception the screenplay was superior, tighter, and without numerous extraneous scenes and exchanges that arguably weakened the characters.  It's not that I dislike Foster's version - just that I agree with what was filmed.  Watching numerous "making of" documentaries on DVDs has made me understand that a movie just can't ramble - every scene and every line has to tell a story.  But the one line the book has that the movie doesn't and should have is when McCoy argues with Spock over the wisdom of kicking a rebellious Kirk off the ship when they're up against a seemingly invincible adversary.  McCoy tells Spock that "the kid just doesn't know how to lose."  I thought that was a remarkably succinct assessment of Kirk, and one that the movie could have used. 
But on the other side of the scale there were numerous exchanges that should have stayed in the book, so a 99.9% rating is probably pretty good.