After all, these humans cannot even trust themselves, so why should the other planets’ inhabitants risk them making discoveries that could bring them further out into the cosmos and disrupt the calm and logical lifestyle of more intelligent creatures with their mood swings, illogical feelings, and unpredictable behaviour? On a planet where Math is the closest thing to a deity and logic is adhered to above all, the emotional and unpredictable humans are not to be trusted. You see, the main character of this novel is an alien sent to Earth from a distant planet to prevent the humans from advancing their knowledge and understanding of Math and Science beyond what they can handle. That is why it is a truly life-affirming experience to find a book like The Humans, where the protagonist is seeing and experiencing everything for the first time. Sherlock Holmes’ famous words: “ you see, but you do not observe” emphasize the difference between seeing and actually seeing something expertly.

In reality, it’s a matter of how we perceive it. However, whether we enjoy something or not is usually not down to the item or act itself. These are things that once brought us immense joy. As we chase this fleeting feeling, we take so many things for granted. There are so many things that we initially love to do only to abandon them or even start hating or resenting them once that initial surge of excitement is over. We are constantly in search of excitement. Finding new meaning and pleasure in something one already knows, now that is something! However, there can be so much more gained from re-examining something you are already familiar with.

I have often heard people say that they would love to be able to read or watch something they loved as if they were experiencing it for the first time. See?” – Matt Haig, author of The Humans Related Post: Living With The Dead: A Review of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Humanity’s Never-Ending Quest for Excitement It is a love story and a murder story and a what-are-we-here-for? story. “I don’t want to tell you it is a book that features an alien in it, because you might not like books with aliens in it, and I don’t really.

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