I'm reading "Stranger in a Strange Land" for the first time. Absolutely great book, and I'm amazed I've never read it before. The whole "life on Mars" premise is dated, of course, but it doesn't even matter.

The only reason I'm mentioning this on Advogato is that it's really weird to read the word "grok" and think that the reader wasn't supposed to understand what it meant right away. I'm just getting to the point in the book where I'm beginning to realize that I don't understand a fraction of what it means anyway, despite having been using it for a year or two...