Hardcover, 302 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2013 by Simon & Schuster.
When an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth, his first impressions of humans are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete his task and hurry back to his own utopian planet. Disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, he is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to reconsider.
This is an excellent, albeit uniquely bizarre, story of love, life and humans. To be honest, the first half of the book is funnier than the second. The second half is more profound than the first half. Together they are most interesting.
Matt Haig watched Coneheads once and said to himself "I could do this, but longer and worse."
I just had to bail (or try again later) on this book. 50 pages into 322 and yet to have a laugh. The jokes I do see them and I like that style cause I loved Phil Janes and Douglas Adams styles to name but a few but this book just falls flat to me.
A nice mix of Platonic mathematical fantasy and refreshing appreciation of our weird species.
This book was beautiful and funny and romantic and sad. I absolutely loved it. Damn you, Sara!
