It had me glued to the story all the way through with a very satisfying ending. I maybe even had damp eyes in a spot or two.

Along the way, I found myself frequently laughing out loud at our disguised alien protagonist and his so-accurate and sometimes very misguided observations. Not your typical sci-fi story, that's for sure. It makes you feel things, take a new look at our purpose in this world, maybe even it could inspire you to reassess and rearrange your priorities. This book is more about human emotions, what makes us humans tick, and how we might look to an extraterrestrial species. If you are looking for techy stuff or military battles, you must look elsewhere. It was really a fun and enjoyable listen for me. The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable tale that playfully and movingly explores the ultimate subject - ourselves. Praised by The New York Times as 'a novelist of great seriousness and talent' author Matt Haig delivers an unlikely story about human nature and the joy found in the very messiness of life on Earth. A mission that involves not only thwarting human progress. In picking up the pieces of the professor's shattered personal life, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans' imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there. He drinks wine, reads Emily Dickinson, listens to Talking Heads, and begins to bond with the family he lives with, in disguise. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe.

He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, the wars they witness on the news, and totally baffled by such concepts of love and family.

Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to complete his task and go back home, to the planet he comes from, and a utopian society of immortality and infinite knowledge. When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. The critically acclaimed author of The Radleys shares a clever, heartwarming, and darkly insightful novel about an alien who comes to Earth to save humans from themselves.

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