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The Humans by Matt Haig

47 reviews

wayward_sara's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

It really was a journey, a beautiful and moving one. Maybe because I had some difficult moments lately, but this book was comforting without being too optimistic. There was pain and sadness in this story but there was also love and happiness. As for the writing style, I liked it, I especially liked the short chapters, to me it felt like reading a short letter from a friend, a little moment of calm before going on with my day.
It's definetely become one of my favorite stories.

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modern_day_wonder's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

4.5 Stars
What a beautiful love letter written to what it means to be human. This definitely makes me want to read more of Haig’s books.

The reason I rated it 4.5 instead of 5 is

the use of infidelity to move the plot forward. It felt unnecessary, like he could have had the, split up because he was lying or was an alien, and I hate reading about infidelity

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alekz's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I am not a fan of sci fi at all. But Haig's 'The Humans' is a realistic fiction book about the complexities and beauties of humanity, with the sci fi as an undercurrent that even vehemently anti sci fi folks can love. I have reread this book many many times and cry every time. Haig has such a way with words, writing this lighthearted, funny and heart breaking story with such a gentle prose that you cant look away. His chapter Advice for Humans is a handful of pages i've reread over and over and over again. It is life changing it rearranged my molecules I have suggested this book more than once to everyone I have met.

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whirl's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book has a bit of everything: funny and lighthearted, but also sad and emotional. I think the way you read it might depend a bit on your own state of mind at the time

Very enjoyable

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book_addict's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

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katrinarose's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is the only book I can think of that I’ve read recently that has made me laugh; I love the outside observations of humanity and things we don’t realize are as weird as they are. This book was fun, but I felt it got a bit bogged down by sappiness at the end and felt a bit slow compared to the the first half. Still, it was fun while still giving a lot to think about.

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elenamarmiroli's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

Premessa iniziale: quando mi sono approcciata a questa lettura, l'ho fatto con notevoli aspettative, avendo precedentemente letto e molto apprezzato l'opera La biblioteca di mezzanotte dello stesso autore e avendo in più anche sentito parlare molto bene di questo libro da una book-tuber che seguo.
Purtroppo, queste aspettative non sono state incontrate, cosa che potrebbe avere inficiato sul giudizio complessivo sul romanzo.

Il problema con questo romanzo è inizialmente il tono con cui il protagonista ci racconta la storia, in quanto impregnato di un senso di superiorità sul genere umano che diventa presto pedante e ripetitivo da leggere, nonostante a livello concettuale esso sia sensato per il personaggio.

Il secondo punto che non ho gradito è la scena

tradimento e delle conseguenze di quest'ultimo

, in quanto mi è risultato al contempo inaspettato, così come non necessario ai fini narrativi.

Un ulteriore problema che ho avuto con l'opera è stato il finale che non ho trovato minimamente soddisfacente. Avrei preferito vedere l'opera conclusa prima

dopo lo scontro con l'altro alieno

o con l'aggiunta di un'ulteriore scena in cui

lui e sua "moglie" si riappacificano parlando tra di loro

.

Quello che ho invece gradito è stato l'osservazione delle nostre abitudini quotidiane come specie dall'esterno e la

progressiva "umanizzazione" del protagonista

, così come le sue interazioni con il figlio e con la moglie, ma con quest'ultima solo fino

a prima della scena del tradimento

.
Per fortuna questi tre punti hanno fatto si che l'opera sia risultata in qualche modo piacevole e non solo insoddisfacente ed irritante.

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