Miriam B. (mtb) reviewed on 4/15/2012 + 30 more book reviews

For me, this book defined a lot of what my generation was about, no, INTO, in the early 70s: the openness and warmth of communal relationships, the importance of Love, patience as a virtue... the Martian saying "Waiting is Fullness" and the creation of the word, now in the dictionary, "Grok." Which to me means to absorb something totally to the point that you are part of it, to share spirituality in a group form, not just by yourself - this was so much a part of my college experience, theatre classes were all about that, as were many other empathetic psychoanalytical styles of the time. If you have read The Red Planet by Heinlein, written more for teens, he is already beginning to examine these concepts of intuitive kindness & a sort of Buddhistic understanding of nature (Martians) vs the Greed & Colonialism of Humans. Powerful bok; in the day it changed many lives, inluding mine.

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