Based on y'all's enthusiasm, I listened to Middlegame over the weekend. I think I'm going to have to read it again - by about halfway through I was pretty sure I'd missed a lot of what-is-even-happening clues.

I'm of two minds about Amber Benson's reading. Some of her character vocal choices were more distracting than immersive for me.

I'm not sure I would be able to follow Middlegame if I listened to it. There were a lot of places I had to flip back and forth between chapters to follow a thread.

Yeah, that was a problem.

I'm still doing my Dresden Files listen. I'm currently on book 7 of the series. And I finished reading Jade City this week, which I highly recommend.

I don't love Seanan McGuire's books on audio generally, and Middlegame needs text.

Though Amber Benson doing the reading is amazing since the first Seanan McGuire's fiction j ever read was Willow/Tara.

I have Middlegame, but haven't gotten to it yet. I cannot deal with audiobooks but I am looking forward to the print version.

I just started reading Stranger In A Strange Land for the first time (I know), and I'm sure I'm supposed to have strong feelings about it, but what are they again? (No spoilers!)

Jesse, I haven't read Stranger or any other Heinlein in a very long time. But my memory is that Stranger has the typical Heinlein strengths and weaknesses -- strong and well-developed ideas, interesting and eccentric male characters, female characters with little more dimension than Playboy bunnies.

Well, you get to add "grok" to your vocabulary, if it wasn't already there. I think you are past the target age to be really wowed by the philosophy. Parts of it are, of course, enraging, but not as much as some of his stuff. Or that's how I remember it from reading it 30+ years ago

I think you are past the target age to be really wowed by the philosophy.

That sounds right!

OK, great -- I couldn't remember if it was now supposed to be awesome or terrible or what.