The Skinny: 
 Aliens have feelings too. 
 The Fat: 
 The Humans is a unique read. It strikes me as a book where either you love it or you hate it. A book where there really isn't an in-between. Haig wrote a funny and sarcastic book about human life from the POV of an alien. The book is about math (especially prime numbers), discovery (of everything from Emily Dickinson to peanut butter sandwiches), and love (and the pain that comes with it). The Humans was wonderfully written. Haig was funny and sincere in his novel. I especially loved Alien-Andrew's advice to Gulliver (I love how it was 97 pieces of advice, Alien-Andrew's favorite prime number). The advice was at times humorous, other times is pertained solely to characters in the book, but most of it was good advice. I'll admit, I may have gotten misty eyed reading it. 
 This book had so many wonderfully funny and quotable lines. I mean everything that he thought about noses was absolutely hilariously accurate. There were many times reading this where I would have to try and control my laughter so I wouldn't startle people. 
 However, although I really enjoyed this book, I couldn't read more than 50 pages at a time. The narration would start to annoy me if I read more than that in one sitting. Well, annoy isn't the right word. I guess it's more so that I had to be in a particular mood to want to read this book. For that reason I keep bouncing back and forth of whether I should give this book three stars or four. I ultimately settled on four stars because Haig wrote a wonderfully weird novel that has made me so excited to be a human. 
 ***TRIGGER WARNINGS: death, murder, heart attack, affair, suicide, bullying