Words are inadequate

I assume that most people read them in chronological order, unless they happened on Talking when it was first published. In my case a friend loaned me Talking in junior high, and I thought it was a lot of fun and mostly forgot about it. Then years later I found Dealing and thought "this is great, and also seems kind of like that one book I borrowed from Amber." It wasn't until I got hold of a SFBC omnibus and was halfway through Talking that I recognized it.