Picked this one up as a free audiobook for signing up with Amazon's Audible subscription deal. It's one of the two RAH juveniles I'd never ready (the other being "Podkayne of Mars" which I have no intention of ever bothering with). It's another Full Cast Audio book, which gives it a boost up in my opinion, but it's still hard going ( Read more... )

And to my delight I've found that they recorded it with a full cast + narrator, a step up even from the excellent Readers Chair version of LMB's Vorkosigan books, which featured two readers taking on the male and female parts respectively. Given that The Rolling Stones has probably the snappiest dialog of any of his novels, juvenile or otherwise, ( Read more... )