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They have developed technology at a rate too fast for human psychology to keep up with, and yet they still pursue advancement for advancement's sake, and for the pursuit of money and fame they all crave so much. In Matt Haig's The Humans , an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth with a mission: to kill the man who has achieved a mathematical discovery considered beyond what is appropriate for humans and for the planet. Meanwhile, he is having a deeply positive effect on his fake family, who have been in pain for years.

For those that don’t know, a human is a real bipedal lifeform of mid-range intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small waterlogged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe. There’s so much to take away from The Humans, focusing on mental health and humans (appropriately titled novel, Mr. So far so good, but after every possible sentence uttered by everyone he/it meets is examined for its incongruity and/or weirdness the amusement factor wore off for me quick smart - and that was the end of that.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. There were some moments wherein I almost panicked because there were math equations in the book, and I am never good in math, unless we’re talking about how much money I would need to survive. The plot is only a facade for looking at humanity from a differing perspective, and despite what many would say in other reviews, it's not unique and it's not a revelation.

But he soon grows deeply fond of humans' capacity for forgiveness, for caring, and for hope--despite their finite life years.

For instance there was nothing on new mathematical observations or still-undiscovered polygons, but quite a bit about politics, which on this planet was essentially all about war and money.

He didn’t mean to act the opposite of the real Professor Andrew Martin who was heartless and never cared for his family. A funny, clever, and unusual book, The Humans, explores what would happen if an alien came to earth and inhabited the body of an earthling and reacted to our life styles and rules for society. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian Satire with humour … Matt Haig, speaking at the Edinburgh book festival. 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.The reason he gets put in his body is because Andrew Martin has a made a mathematical breakthrough and the aliens have determined humans are not ready for the way this discovery would change the world. With his experiences at the forefront of his mind, this book provides what you need to hear if you are suffering/ have ever suffered with depression. Haig displays a wise understanding of the human condition and exploits to the hilt the vantage point that he has given his narrator. 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.

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