Philly.com/Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, July 7, 2013:
"Alien's take on human life: a silly, soulful exploration of the meaning of sentimentality, loyalty, love, mortality." The Humans, A Novel by Matt Haig book review by Glenn C. Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University:
On Vonnadoria, there are no comforting delusions, no religion, no love, hate, passion, or remorse, no names, no husbands or wives, no death. Reason reigns, and every action originates in a logical motive.
A human life, he reminds us, lasts on average about 30,000 days. Enough time for people to be born, make some friends, eat some meals, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sex, get married or not, have a child or two, or not, "discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realize they would have done it the same, and then they die. Into the great black nothing." The point of love, he suggests, is to help a person survive and cease searching for the meaning of it all: "To stop looking and start living. The meaning was to hold the hand of someone you cared about and to live inside the present."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20130707_The_human_experience__from_an_alien.html#JPo3lr7I6E8esC1J.99
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