The Humans

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The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable novel about alien abduction, mathematics, and that most interesting subject of all: ourselves. So he sets out on a quest into the human world to kidnap Samuel and the troll friend he’s been hiding in his wardrobe . 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.

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As Andrew bides his time to find the right moment to eliminate Gulliver and Andrew’s wife, Isobel, he starts to discover comfort on Earth.

The way this alien views humanity cracks me up because he doesn't understand anything about our people or our world, and seeing him experience humanity for the first time was so entertaining. Funny and life affirming, it’s one of those rarest of books; a feel good read that will stay with you long after reading. The Humans is structured as a scientific analysis of life on Earth, but it is also about the personal experiences of an extraterrestrial who struggles to reconcile the paradox of human life. Mrs Fell … doesn't know that time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer new ways of seeing ourselves and the world.

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If you peer down the hill from Matt Haig’s immaculate townhouse in Brighton, you can see the sea, which today is shimmeringly blue under a hot sun. You know how you think your family is pretty normal until you bring someone over to meet them and you see everything and everyone anew through his eyes?This book’s narratoris antiques dealer Terence Cave, ‘whose inner monologue is all Keats quotes and references to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata’ (John Burnside, The Guardian, 7 June 2008). Damien Lewis is starring in The Radleys movie along with Kelly Macdonald, Sophia Di Martino, Shaun Parkes, Harry Baxendale and Bo Bragason. As he becomes more comfortable on Earth, he develops irrational feelings for Andrew Martin’s family and friends.

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Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived. Philip’s artlessness enables him tell the truth more poignantly: ‘Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me … It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me me and it wasn't there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn't know if that was enough. That’s pretty much what happens in Matt Haig’s humorous yet heartwarming novel, The Humans, though in this case your family is the human race and the outsider is an alien. I am always torn with Haig's work, it reads and feels like a top quality Hallmark movie, but always gives me the sense of trying too hard to be such. Haig’s unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter… It’s funny, clever and quite, quite lovely.For those that don’t know, a human is a real bipedal life form of midrange intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small waterlogged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.