It's a different world out there.

I "grok" that - loved that book. Read it several times back in the 70s.

I loved that book - and yes I grok what you're saying - thanks for inspiring me to read it again

Great book. Worth re-reading. Do you wonder whether they think we are strange?

*WOAH* That book had a HUGE impact on my life. Stranger in a Strange Land & Mists of Avalon impacted my view of the world, what's possible & who I am.

Am looking forward to the movie as well...

We are so much more alike than we are different. Yes, #45 too. Not that I want to ride the subway with him...

Also Ray Bradburys The Illustrated Man. Each picture had a story

It's a rapidly evolving or devolving world accelerated by social media and a 24 hour news cycle. I can hear Leon Russell singing Stranger in a Strange Land; ironically it is a song I listen to while in the subway.

so many books to go back and re-read. Thank you all for bringing me back. I have saved some of the more special pieces of clothing from my "youth", and am certain that as I walked through the streets of Boston and Manhattan in the 70s with my friends many watching us come and go were feeling what you have expressed Fred.

I can't believe you wrote about that book!! I recently downloaded it to reread.

In a figurative sense my name is Gershom (Exodus 2:22) for I have BEEN and maybe still AM maybe not from This earth but from a place close by . I have walked the jungles of Angola at night. Alone and lost . I have walked the streets of Colombo in Sri Lanka followed by small children with fly infested faces. No.... Not feeling from this earth . And now in my seventh decade I feel more than ever to be a Stranger in a Strange Land . In my own country. Divided in a greater way than I could have ever thought . Separated from life long friends by an ideology that snuck up on me much like the aging process Fred talked about last week . Tough times to be from Mars .

Hollander Sends