Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book

I know a lot of people have said that this book is "mind blowing" and "earth shattering" and whatnot but I just wanted to clarify that, at its core, this book is soft and gentle and warm. It feels less like a startling revolution and more like a kind reminder of everything you already know to be true. It is honest and wonderful and remarkable and that is it's magic.

I read this book with my preadolescent son. He was attentive all the time, dazzled by some of the thoughts and sentences of this wise book. Once we finished reading, he summed everything up in a simple phrase, “this book is full of existentialist stuff.” The book is a collection of thoughts about life and death, made mostly by animals, who together personify the whole zoo of human anxieties.The reflections are smartly threaded together. The author shies away from the ironic detachment and the indignant engagement that characterize many of his contemporaries. He embraces a tragic approach to life, love, work, art and death.As a way to recruit the cynical and the angry, let me give you a few examples of the author’s quiet wisdom: about sadness ("if u are sad becuase happiness is fleeting, just remember that sadness is also fleeting too"), about the trap of knowledge ("i’m trying to be a wiser owl but the more i learn about the world, the bigger it seems and the smaller i feel"), about the paradoxical nature of relationships ("the harder it is to say goobye to sombody, the luckier u are to have met sombody ur going to miss"), about lasting love ("we internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remeber them. we are all living memorials") and about life in general ("the universe is most generous when somehow, agaimst all odds, it finds a way of telling you ur seeing somethimg for the last time in ur life").I recommend this book. All in all, it gives you the simple (and rare) pleasure of melancholy: “enjoy ur sadness one day even ur sadness will be over too soon.”

This book is poigniant graphic story that anyone from ages 7 to 70 will find something to adore about it. Empathizing with fear, imposter syndrome, loneliness, friendship, exploration, and how our worldview shapes our world- this book says so much with so little. Poetic and profound while simplicity makes it wonderfully accessible. Reading it felt like getting a mental hug while being told you're not alone.

There are graphic books that enchant because of the quality detailed artwork, others because they have one's favourite characters in them, and others because they are like an entertaining movie that one truly enjoys and cannot put down. However, sometimes one come across books that we love despite not having any of that, books that one loves because they are fresh and refreshing, funny and full of wisdom, all at the same time.The alien in this graphic novel is like a small child with poor literacy skills to whom the world around has never been explained except for a few generic facts, and who discovers it on its own. Its clean eye notices the idiosyncrasy and contradictions of human nature without any judgement, just puzzlement at times. Sadness, happiness, personal identity, and the fear of the unknown are some of the themes posed to the reader throughout this comic. My favourite characters are the egg that wants to be a frog (an analogy for so many existential quests) and Nothing(ness) and its God-like wisdom. The texts are naive, witty, hilarious at time, sweet and wise; the book ends with the cute alien's travel log, which contains some philosophical witty tweets to ponder about. The drawing is simple, purposely child-like. I thought that the book feeds on some premises we can find in some of the stories in Lem's  The Star Diaries (Penguin Modern Classics) .The Kindle edition was not good, at least in my tablet. Images could not be zoomed in or out, and neither was the lettering. One can use double tapping for vignette individuation, but since there aren't vignettes in this comic, what one sees is the letters augmented a tiny bit. Despite that, some of the texts are very difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

For a strangely illustrated little comic book, this goes very deep into the meaning of existence. Best read in small bits, so you can stop and think about it for a day or two, then read the next bit. It's surprisingly sweet and well written- in its own obscure language that we can understand. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. I think it might even be fun to color.One note: If I had it to do over again, I would get the paper book and not the kindle version. The kindle was very small on my screen and my kindle app didn't work to enlarge the pictures, so if it was too small to read, I had to do a screen shot and then enlarge it in my photo album. It would be better to get the paper book. But you should get it, however you can!

One of the first truly great minds of the millenial generation fully disregarding tradition and expectations as millenials do.An admittedly slow start that builds to a powerful finish. Jonathan Sun holds his work to the highest standard, no surprise to those who follow his twitter.He addresses mental illness without ever restricting it to such labels. He shines a light on the corners of the human mind we often intentionally leave out of view. Sadness, despair, hope, loss, friendship. The events by which we measure our lives, but whose emotional impact we, for the sake of appearances, are afraid to fully disclose.Eloquent and concise with a shameless disregard for spelling and syntax, Everyone's a Aliebn when Ur a Aliebn Too is not to be underestimated. Written as though a children's book in order to bring forth our childlike innocence and vulnerability, this book is everything but childish.Read it and share it with everyone you know. Everyone's takeaway will be different, but everyone will be impacted in some way. And that's the ultimate purpose of literature.

This is possibly the purest book I have ever read. It's like getting a hug from a book.Do yourself a favour and get a physical copy of the book. I normally read everything on my kindle but the illustrations in this are far too fantastic to be viewed on a digital screen. Plus you can colour them in on your way to work.This is one of those books you'll read then want to give as a gift to everyone you know. Children, grandparents, boyfriends, girlfriends, it doesn't matter. It's just such pure wholesomeness there's something for everyone.Give Jomny a follow on Twitter as well. He's a very funny friendly guy.

I originally bought this as a gift after reading several gushing reviews about how thought provoking it is and how it was helpful for people with anxiety and depression. Total waste of money. Talk about all hype and no substance. It's essentially a cartoon and while there were one or two lovely thoughts in it, we clearly both missed the point of it because neither of us found it particularly thought provoking or inspiring. It was just a badly spelled one picture per page cartoon.

I bought this book for my 15 year old who is having a bit of a hard time emotionally. He's thinking a lot about existence and death. He read it (rare for him to read this days) and afterwards he came to me specifically to thank me for buying the book saying 'I understand why you chose it now'. And those of you with teenage boys will understand that that constitutes a rave review.

Such a beautiful, moving, funny, thoughtful book. It's one of those 'special things' you discover that you just want to share with everybody you know. It's also a lovely produced book, great illustrations - (begging to be coloured in!) and words that you'll want to put on a T-shirt. It's truly a great book and a wonderful achievement by it's author Jomny Sun.

I have literally never cried so hard at a book in all my life. Jomny and his pals tell you things that you didn't know you needed to hear but that make your life infinitely better as soon as you hear them. This whole book is like getting a hug when you need it the most <3