The Humans

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This hypothesis involves prime numbers and the rate at which the amount of prime numbers become smaller as numbers get larger(which numbers grow to infinity). Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned him and hurry home to his own Utopian planet, where everyone is omniscient and immortal. This imperfect, non-human creature changed the lives of the people around him, especially Isobel’s and Gulliver’s.

At first glance no alien race would be able to resist the temptation to exterminate a dangerous, almost rabid, species like ours. And while they are quite valid and something that the author could have rectified easily, each is not much of a problem. of me is upset about this because it was so wonderfully brilliant and I need another right now, but the other 10% is happy because this is the only book that has brought me this much feeling to my life, and I can’t review Haig every week, can I?The alien in turn, at first baffled and disgusted by humans, grows increasingly attached to his Earth family.

They have created a world of divisions and categories and have continually failed to see the similarities between themselves. Problems occur when our friendly alien finds he cannot carry out his mission in the way his superiors wish. For the rest of you, and those who sent me, humans are in many respects exactly as strange as you would expect them to be. Told through the romantic and curious perspective of an unnamed alien, Matt Haig’s The Humans is an honest and mostly-optimistic view on humanity, showing that hope and greatness could be found in our imperfections as individuals and as a whole. You cannot meet an alien culture that you cannot love - if you don't, the fault must be more in you than in the culture.Matt Haig has said here: “I have never written anything like [ The Humans] and probably never will again. This book shows how the universe can send in their best, most logical, most clinical and advanced soldier but it's no match for us wonderful humans.

But he soon grows deeply fond of humans' capacity for forgiveness, for caring, and for hope--despite their finite life years. But then he starts liking and loving his wife, gets involved in the strained life of his growingup son to help him, and he likes the dog :-) And then he finds out life on earth is not so bad, although 'the humans' could learn a lot. This is a book that I think everyone – regardless of your preferred genres – should pick up and read. Meanwhile, he is having a deeply positive effect on his fake family, who have been in pain for years. I enjoyed this story by Matt Haig so much more than his book The Midnight Library (see my review at https://www.

Love is truth") above the level of the " Desiderata" poster or the sort of wry and twinkly conclusions about what it means to be human that Spock was often subjected to at the end of a Star Trek episode. My praise for this book is never-ending – I genuinely haven’t loved a book as much as I love this one, in a very long time – and I’m sure that it will stay with me for a very long time to come. The 97 point list that features in the book is perhaps the book's shining moment, Matt's skillful blending of the emotional with the humorous means he avoids this list becoming saccharine and it is genuinely moving, my favourite point being "It's not the length of life that matters.

Matt Haig is a must-read author for me, as his books make me feel understood, uplifted, and - you guessed it - human.The plot is kept entertaining though its overall nature is very predictable, but as Haig takes pains to show, the beauty is in the small details. He also takes us on a crazy trip through our own existence, so we can see with clarity how silly, awful, lovely, ridiculous and wonderful our short lives are. Matt Haig is not afraid of a sweeping generalisation any more than he is afraid of peculiar specifics… But this bravado is what makes the book work.