By Gene Simmons – Stranger in a Strange Land. Robert Heinlein certainly had a big impact on me. I must have read this when I was in my early teens. Being a foreigner myself, I knew just how it felt being from a different place and never quite fitting in. The fact that a serious film of this book has never been done (despite The Man Who Fell to Earth, which was very psychedelic and missed the point) is something I never understood. Forrest Gump isn’t too far away from Stranger in a Strange Land. Read it. • The Great Amer­ican Bath­room Book series. This is really a sort of…