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Von: Matt Haig
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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE?

After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is 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 . . . ?

 Science Fiction

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Kritikerstimmen

"Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot"
"A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy"
"Great idea, great plot and superb comedy, especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human ways"
"Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus"
"A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are" (Charlotte Heathcote)
"Haig's unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter . . . Funny, clever and quite, quite lovely" (Sam Baker)
"Excellent . . . very human and touching indeed" (PATRICK NESS)
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The Humans is tremendous; a kind of Curious Incident meets The Man Who Fell to Earth.
It's funny, touching and written in a highly appealing voice

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"The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin" (JEANETTE WINTERSON)
"A brilliant exploration of what it is to love, and to be human, The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious, weird, and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I've read in a very long time" (S.J. WATSON)
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Mein erster Buch von Haig, regt zum Denken an, nimmt andere Muster und Perspektiven ein, entweder es gefällt einem oder nicht.

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"Stell Dir vor, du seist ein Alian in der Schule, welcher nun nächste Woche ein Referat über die Spezies 'Mensch' halten muss. Also nimmst du diese Lektüre, welche von einem Alian geschrieben wurde. "

genau so habe ich dieses Buch meinem Umfeld beschrieben und sie zum lesen animiert. Unterhaltsam geschrieben, lebensbereichernde Ansichten und Spannend bis zum Schluss.

fantastisch

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I read the book first and then listened to the audio book. The speaker does a great job of bringing the fish out of water protagonist to life without being unbelievable or annoying. The progression of the mindset is very well worked out.

Very competent and enjoyable

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Tarina oli kuten How to stop time. Nämä kaksi kirjaa sekoittuvat. Oliko niissä sama aihe?

IntrestingTarina

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I loved the idea behind the book. What would an outsider - an alien - think about us humans, about our life on earth? We are supposed to be an evolved and intelligent species, and yet we do the most incredibly stupid - and often downright evil - things. Most of our problems (climate change, wars, terrorism etc. etc.) are man-made, and yet we do next to nothing to prevent them. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. I suspect an alien wouldn't be too impressed with us.

So this could've been really interesting, and the first few chapters were quite promising and rather funny. Unfortunately it soon became incredibly corny and trite.

I guess this could be described as a "feel-good story", an antidote to all the terrible things we see on the news every day. Unfortunately it's not for me. Its message is too simplistic and based on insights as profound as a Hallmark card. It's so sickly sweet that reading this might actually cause tooth decay. I guess I'm way too cynical for this amount of naiveté.

The narrator is okay. His performance is unspectacular, but not unpleasant. His "female" voices (a kind of breathy whisper) is rather annoying, though.

Corny and trite

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