Luckily, he like all cats is prone to naps. :)

Well, I've helped run an annual 3-day sf/f/horror convention for over 40 years, and attended several World SF Conventions. I've met a fair number of authors, some of them pretty famous. Most are fine, some are or were less so. One came to our con, had an apparent great time, then trashed us later in print, so, he was ridiculous. Another was fine with fans but a PITA for us because he was drunk most of the time. They're humans, as fine or as fucked up as any bunch of humans is. I'll say, Jack and Joe Haldeman were great. Robert Block was fantastic. David Gerrald was a lot of fun and gave one of the best Guest of Honor speeches I've ever heard. Robert Zelazny was terrific.

But, yeah. Orson Scott Card was a shit to me. His wife made him apologize. It was likely just before he went off the rails into zealot territory.

What's wrong with him is he's been preaching hatred for decades.

You, all of you, take in visual information more easily and completely than you do audio alone. It's just how you're wired.

I have found only one audio book I enjoyed -- a book I had already read and loved. And, I read along as it was narrated. Most of the time, audiobook narrators read far too slowly for me. (The book was Among the Living, by Jordan Castillo Price, book 1 of a paranormal gay detective series.)

That de-escalated quickly.

I'm extremely picky about voices, so the only audiobook I listened to all the way through was Among the Living, by Jordan Castillo Price (PsyCop #1). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22888714-among-the-living

The voice actor, Gomez Pugh, performed the MC perfectly.

Because what I want to read shifts, I read up to a dozen books at a time. To avoid confusion, I read dissimilar books; different story types and character names. I have stopped all other reading to finish a really good book. I did it yesterday to finish Notorious Sorcerer, by Davinia Evans. Her first novel, first in a series, just got better and better all the way through.

I'm 65 and I suspect the ratio hasn't changed much; I read between 200-300 titled works a year, mostly novels. Non-fiction is about one science book a year, and one to three writing craft books.

Just FYI, you can block authors who have Goodreads pages, pretty sure it eliminates them from your reccs. Scroll aalllllll the way down to the small print asking if you want to block. Click, and wait a second or three for the system to update.

The whole series is awesome. https://www.goodreads.com/series/191900-the-murderbot-diaries

Timing is everything.