Stranger in a Strange Land was completely different than what I had expected, but in the best way possible. It made me really think about how I perceived everything, since it forced me to look at things through Michael Valentine Smith’s eyes. I inhaled the book, reading it at every possible opportunity, and finished it very quickly. And -- I don’t want to give away too much here -- I was completely betrayed by the end. I felt betrayed, and I also felt ill at ease from the way the book was at the end, the actions and situations that the characters put themselves in.

I grokked many things over the course of the day, and I continue to grok new things. This book opened my eyes to the human condition, as well as human prejudices, and I believe that is the best thing a book can do. In every situation where I felt wrongness or betrayal in this book, I had to come to the conclusion that I was the one who was acting on my prejudices that I have from growing up on Earth, in a human culture predominantly based on Chritianity, and there was no “true” wrongness in any situation since nobody was being harmed.