I could live off cottage cheese and doritos, and some weeks you would think I had been. I love it plain or with pine apple, or with chives as well.

I feel I relate to this book completely. It is one of the most important books if you know how to read between the lines. It is a reflection on people and the way we relate. The main character, Valentine Michael Smith is a human, but martian in his social upbringing, lacking any human influences… the nurse who kidnaps/frees him from the governments custody has almost as much alien way of thought from the mainstream mentality in her own way. And the government, well the government in the book does its best to control what we think, as usual. Heinlein creatively takes advantage of the imaginary martian language to create new words to better describe what he wanted to express, and some have become fairly common in modern English conversation. “Grok” is his word for understanding something so completely that you have almost digested and absorbed and become one with the knowledge you possess