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bryguy27007
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Can You Grok It?
#18774184 - 08/29/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Has anybody else read Stranger in a Strange Land? I'm about a third of the way through and this book is fucking phenomenal. I can't get over it, and it seems to be getting better and better.
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No, but I think it's been recommended to me before. Maybe I'll try to find an ebook version.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: psi]
#18774205 - 08/29/13 05:28 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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will add this boook to my list taa
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: druqs]
#18774225 - 08/29/13 05:30 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Definitely do it! I haven't been this engrossed in a book for a while.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: druqs]
#18774229 - 08/29/13 05:30 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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What's it about? My google is broke.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: Tmethyl]
#18774239 - 08/29/13 05:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and eventual transformation of—terrestrial culture. The title is an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22.[1] According to Heinlein, the novel's working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as "The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written".[2] Heinlein got the idea for the novel when he and his wife had some brainstorming one evening in 1948, and she suggested a new version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, where a human child is raised by Martians instead of wolves. He decided to go further with the idea, and worked on the story on and off for more than a decade before it was complete.[3] After having finished Stranger in a Strange Land, his editors at Putnam required him to drastically cut its original 220,000-word length down to 160,067 words. In 1962, this version received the Hugo Award for Best Novel.[4]
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Grok /ˈɡrɒk/ is a word coined by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, where it is defined as follows: Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man. From the physical point of view, the mutual grokking of two ensembles of matter waves is their mutual constructive interference, also known as quantum entanglement: Those who are grokking are momentarily vibrating on the same frequency and wavelength. —Koss, Ron; Koss, Arnie ♦ The Earth's Best Story Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010, p. 8 The Oxford English Dictionary defines grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy; to establish rapport with" and "to empathise or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment". Other forms of the word include groks (present third person singular), grokked (past participle) and grokking (present participle).
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Reading it.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: Tmethyl]
#18774257 - 08/29/13 05:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've heard of this book many times before I'm gonna have to read it sometime.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: Sheekle]
#18774265 - 08/29/13 05:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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*buying it now*
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: druqs]
#18774270 - 08/29/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh my god this thread is a monumental success, . I think you guys will all enjoy it.
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I grok this thread thoroughly.
Edited by TYL3R (08/29/13 06:11 PM)
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: TYL3R]
#18774385 - 08/29/13 06:06 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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read the first few pages.
thanks to Electric Koolaid I can definitely grok it.
Lets all bump this thread after we read this book
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: g00ru]
#18775245 - 08/29/13 09:31 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh my god this is making me so happy I want to cry, . I hope you guys actually read it. I'm super digging it.
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i have never read this book, but another book by heinlein which i found pretty damn capturing is the moon is a harsh mistress.
i'll have to read/listen to stranger in a strange land, i have it but was occupied with other sci fi books.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: jvm]
#18777180 - 08/30/13 12:35 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Halfway through, still stellar. It's getting crazy.
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Ahhh soooo good. I does just keep getting better.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: Lynnch]
#18777216 - 08/30/13 12:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh man, I remember reading this in 11th grade. One of the first real novels I read in English. It opened my sheltered little mind a fair bit and probably sent me on my way to become the space cadet I am today.
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Re: Can You Grok It? [Re: Lynnch]
#18777223 - 08/30/13 12:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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gem of a book...
check out Heinlen's "i will fear no evil.".. transplant technology puts the brain of an old man into the body of a hot young woman... heavy shit...
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Wow. Fucking unreal. I just finished it. Holy shit. Don't know what else to say. Read it.
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