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The Humans

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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 THERE'S NO PLANET LIKE HOME

After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, (and he's a dog).

Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race?©2020 Matt Haig (P)2020 Canongate Books Ltd Science Fiction Fiction Funny Feel-Good Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Witty

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I love Matt’s writing. This book draws you in with humour and laugh out loud moments and then intrigues you what first looks like a straightforward storyline, and then somewhere along the way it gets to the very heart of what it is to live and love. Brilliantly researched and wonderfully peppered with poetry and music. I imagine the ‘100 pieces of advice’ will be quoted in many a coming of the age birthday speech. Loved it, will be reading it again when I need picking up!

So beautiful and life affirming

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Professor Andrew Martin is dead before the book even begins. An alien from another galaxy now inhabits his body. As the alien soon discovers, Andrew wasn’t a very nice person. The alien is sent to Earth to destroy evidence of a major mathematical problem that Andrew had recently solved. But he soon finds himself learning more about “the humans”, including the professor, his wife and son, than he ever thought possible, and he even starts to care for, and even love, his wife and son. The alien must make a decision whether to complete his mission and return home, or to find a new home on Earth.

Oh, I absolutely LOVED this! The alien who inhabits Andrew’s body is so funny. He makes really amusing and accurate observations about humans’ appearances, and about human behaviour, that we ourselves have observed on a daily basis but don’t really take much notice of. It’s also hilarious when the alien starts to pick up on humour and starts using it himself, especially all of the unorthodox swearing! There were also some really lovely relationships which start to develop as the story progresses. I particularly enjoyed the alien’s relationship with Gulliver (his “son”), and with Newton, their family dog. Mark Meadows as narrator was also very good, he was able to do a lot of different voices and accents for the different characters, as well as just sounding clueless for most of it! All of this makes for a very entertaining and heartwarming read, or listen!

I really don’t think that there was anything that I didn’t love about this, and I think I will definitely read it or listen to it again at some point in the future.

For all of the above reasons, I give this book 5 out of 5 stars! I would actually give it more if it were possible.

I highly recommend this to anyone who loves sci-fi and fantasy, contemporary fiction, stories about body-snatching aliens, familial relationships, heartwarming stories, and a lot of humour.

Hilarious

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A scewed and funny perspective on humans giving stuff for afterthought, laughter and a great deal of smiling. I enjoyed it, and will definitely listen to more from Matt Haig.
Mark Meadows is a pleasure to listen to, and just nailed it. Greatly narrated.

Enjoyable

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This book exceeded my expectations and I enjoyed it from start to finish. (Except for that f*****g one f*****g chapter that f*****g never f*****g ended.. I skipped that one at about "nr. 42". Do yourself a favor and skip it after "nr. 7")

I was absolutely entranced from the very first minute and it kept going really stronly until the last third of the book where it became a little more fumbling and had a hard time landing. I'm left a little bit dissapointed after such a strong start, but I still really enjoyd the book and would recommend it to others. Give it a listen.

The narration is absolutely fantastic!

Beautiful, funny and relatable

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A brilliant analysis of what it means to be a human being, absolutely loved it

An amazing analytical view on humanity

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