I really enjoyed my time listening to the stress simulator 3000. My favourite bit was how the entire book was written like the most aggravating parts of Jurassic Park where Lex is yelling at Timmy to DO SOMETHING and Timmy shouts back IM TRYING. I really did like the twist in the very last line though.
Speaker for the dead was a weird book. Points for trying, maybe, in that the theme seems to be about striving for peaceful coexistence despite a violent history.