I tried to listen through it as an audiobook on my long commutes. I couldn’t make it through it. Too much sex and not enough space ships!
Aww, you shoulda stuck with it. IIRC, about chapter 79, they retrofit the spaceship so it can have sex…
Having never read “Stranger…”, my first exposure to “grok” was '60s non-sense where it was used as an acronym–Getting Rid Of Karma. Didn’t see that in the Wiki article. Have I been whooshed? Enlighten me, please.
Huh. Up to now I had always assumed “grok” originated with the argot of Alex and his droogs in A Clockwork Orange.