Thoughts about the book the Humans by Matt Haig 📚
I finished the book The Humans by Matt Haig yesterday. I liked how it was written and the perspective it gave perspective it gave to us as humans.
I have never read anything like it. The book was not what I expected before reading it – I expected a sci-fi story – but I got a love story. It is a classical love story but also a love story for being human with all the messy parts that being human entails. Would I recommend it? Yes, but be prepared that it also touches some of the dirtier areas of us humans (self-harm, suicide, infidelity). Although it has a “good” perspective on life overall, the book is one hell of a ride.
The book has a lot of nice sentences to quote and put on to a wall :-) Here are some I especially liked:
“which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon),”
The context is humanity, I love the humor.
“Human life, I realised, got progressively worse as you got older, by the sound of things. You arrived, with baby feet and hands and infinite happiness, and then the happiness slowly evaporated as your feet and hands grew bigger. And then, from the teenage years onwards, happiness was something you could lose your grip of, and once it started to slip it gained mass.”
“Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.”
“30. Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.”
“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”
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@ChrisJWilson It is.
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@V_ Sounds like a good book then. I do like that line about the semi-colon too!
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