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Book Group - Sept 2014 - The Humans -Discussion thread

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McGoohan Sep 2014 7:56am, 29 Sep 2014 12,688 posts	0 McGoohan Here you are - I've set up a separate discussion thread for t'Humans by Matt Haig, September's book
BaronessBL Sep 2014 8:01am, 29 Sep 2014 4,021 posts	0 BaronessBL Whos going to start then?
McGoohan Sep 2014 8:06am, 29 Sep 2014 12,691 posts	0 McGoohan Dio? It's 'his' book
Diogenes Sep 2014 9:21am, 29 Sep 2014 7,452 posts	0 Diogenes Don't mind if others jump in first, I will chip in soon. I'm tempted to write a review, but I'm not sure that is conducive to a good discussion, if we all right long essays and don't respond to each other.
Oysterboy Sep 2014 9:24am, 29 Sep 2014 9,980 posts	0 Oysterboy So are we starting the discussion now and not waiting until the first?
Diogenes Sep 2014 9:31am, 29 Sep 2014 7,453 posts	0 Diogenes Unless anyone objects... I think people are keen to get on with it.
Oysterboy Sep 2014 9:33am, 29 Sep 2014 9,981 posts	0 Oysterboy Ok, let's do it!
McGoohan Sep 2014 9:42am, 29 Sep 2014 12,692 posts	0 McGoohan OK, here we go.... I quite liked it.
Oysterboy Sep 2014 9:45am, 29 Sep 2014 9,982 posts	0 Oysterboy I thought it was alright. I didn't hate it. It was a real genre-mongrel of a book, chick lit crossed with sci-fi and I don’t think that really worked. I thought that the writing of the chick lit bit was far better than the writing of the sci-fi bit, I didn’t buy into that at all. It is incredibly difficult to write sci-fi convincingly I don’t think the author has the skill as it came across as being really childish and amateur.
Tomsmum Sep 2014 9:55am, 29 Sep 2014 1,342 posts	0 Tomsmum I didn't like it much, it just didn't fit together for me: the whole premise of the story.. He had to kill anyone who knew about this maths breakthrough didn't really work for me. Also I think the end note explained a lot , the author went through a period of mental breakdown/depression and I think he was working through that by writing the book, the alien was too human even from the beginning