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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A funny, sad, thought provoking read about life as know it. Or knew it since I read it during Covid 19! I don't rate five stars - usually but this was so well written and enjoyable I had to. It's also not my typical genre' so I had to go outside the "box" and I loved it! Read it - you won't be disappointed.
Proving once again that it's often necessary to take an outsider's view into consideration to fully understand something familiar, The Humans is a treatise addressed to the alien's race, describing the messy, repulsive, delightful and humane nature that makes us human. The alien, who actually prefers a dog to people—a perfectly sensible decision to many humans—discovers one of the greatest dangers of anthropology: the temptation to go “native.” Belongs to Publisher SeriesEmpúries Narrativa (457) AwardsDistinctions
Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected. No library descriptions found. |
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While the "we only see beauty because we also feel hurt and death" message is a bit kitschy, and certainly - it rings a bit too close to "there is no light without shadow" to me - it's nonetheless an important message. Haig does a good job of recognizing the reality and the beauty of being human despite our many imperfections.
Still, I couldn't really find myself getting into this book much, so three stars it is. ( )