The Host

Has anyone read The Host? What did you think? I liked it much better than Twilight, but I' wonder if that is an age issue.

I loved the Host!.......definitely not better than Twilight!

I'm still waiting for it from the library, there is a long wait list. I loved all of the twilight books so I really hope to enjoy The Host. I'll keep you updated.

I Have The Host But I Havent Read It Yet Im Going to read it over the summer atm i havent got an interest in it

same.. i kinda want to read it but there are other books that i would rather read :)

I loved The Host.
It starts out really slow, but closer to the end it gets really, really good :)

Still waiting for the library to get to my request for it. *sigh*

I agree with Alice. It was a bit weird in the beginning but it's AWESOME :D Definitely not better than Twilight but it's still a good read. And Stephenie Meyer said it will probably be a trilogy, with the next called The Soul and the third called The Seeker. WOOT :) Can't wait.

I know..
I'm excited too :)

I heard Stephenie is coming out with a series about Ghosts! Can't wait for that!!!!

8: hahaha WOOT?! gosh your a strange one! :)

10: I heard that it was a book, not a series but - meh :)

11: WOOT :D is awesome. Don't forget the seriously happy face ":D". Alright? GOSH! :)

haha okie dokie fair enough! :)

haha you're right next to me!! haha i wonder why Ashley (sitting across from me) asked what we were on.. creepy lol i was like umm librarything..

^ She wants in on our awesome cyber cult :D

yeah.. fully lol nah

im trying to read it but im completly confuzzeld and im getting sick of reading the first 3 chapters over and over again cause im completly lost on the host

6 and 16: It was a struggle for me to get through the first half, but then it got really, really good so I'm eagerly awaiting book two. As much as I loved it though, I like the Twilight series more.

10: Can't wait also!

Heaps of people are saying The Host is confusing but I didn't find it confusing at all!? I thought it made sense.

I think I found parts confusing in the first half, but can't remember now. Would need to re-read it to be sure.

It was confusing at first, but I slowly picked up what was going on.

I think i'm going to read it. :)

I find Stephenie Meyer likes to describe ALOT in detail and in the Host she describes mega! So I found it to be a bit of a hard slog to get through. HOWEVER, I think this is Stephenie's magic...you know so much about the characters in detail that they become so real and when you finish reading one of her books you can't stop thinking about the characters. Does anyone else feel the same way???

Si senorita :)
(or atleast I think you're a girl.)

haha! what if it wasn't! that would be very funky! :)

I like books that have really good descriptions :)

Yes, very very good

Yes people, I'm a girl so Si senorita away!

I guess it depends on what the person is describing whether it holds my attention eg in Twilight I hated reading about in detail what Bella was cooking for her father and in the Host when the Soul was constantly describing the winding caves everytime she went down one.

I've also noticed Stephenie Meyer likes to use "chargrin" alot. Every character has "chargrin" at one time or another.

But like I mentioned before, after reading Host/Twilight I felt like I was really there because I knew so much detail so when each book finished I felt like I was loosing my best friend...does that make sense?

I love books that leave a little presence with me. So to Stephenie Meyer, don't stop describing and keep on chargrinnnnnnninng.

I agree, Stephanie Meyer writes much more about the characters and their inner thoughts and feelings (especially compared to most books about alien parasites......). The Host was a very emotional book.

I noticed about "chargrin". It was a little annoying but - meh. And yes, SMeyer has said that "she writes for her characters". Which I thought was really cool, mostly authors just write b/c they got an idea about a story and just have the characters to act it out, whereas, the characters (in Twilight) are the story. If that makes any sense (?)

that makes total sense. you're right, it is the characters themselves that make the book and how they react in certain situations.

can't wait for Stephenies next project...

I don't like in Eclipse when they go waaayy into detail about the Quilette(sp?) legends and also Jaspers life, it's too long! But pretty intersesting i guess.

:)

30: Me neither! :D

31: I just didn't really like Eclipse and I have NO idea why .. it had plenty of action, lots of drama between Edward-Bella-Jacob and other stuff but I just don't like it! I don't DISlike it but I don't love it like I do with Twilight & New Moon. Weird.

My favourite is New Moon and my favourite part is when Edward leaves!? I have no idea why! I think because it's like dramatic and sad without being tacky like Days of our lives sort of drama.

^ Agreed :) About the last part, I mean. I don't really have a favourite part. Hmm, maybe the prom scene in Twilight :)

My favorite is New Moon also.
I just finished re-reading for the 4th time about an hour ago.
I like the Volturi scene and when Bella and Jacob hang out before they find out the he is a werewolf..

Yeah, at first I HATED New Moon so badly but then I re-read it and I was like, "I LOVE THIS BOOK!" I just finished re-reading it for the fifth time two days ago! Me and Leah are gonna re-read it just before the movie comes out and then after :)
My fav scenes in all the books have to be:
Twilight: Prom scene
New Moon: Volturi scene & when Bella thinks about how she never meant to love Edward but now that she did, she couldn't live without him etc..
Eclipse: Bella & Jacob scene in the second to last chapter, always makes me cry!
Breaking Dawn: Wedding, Isle Esme & when Jacob imprints on Renesmee.

:)

Twilight: The chapter titled "The Cullens"
New Moon: The Volturi scene and Jacob and Bella in the garage.
Eclipse: When Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice share their stories. Also, the graduation party.
Breaking Dawn: Wedding, Jacobs POV, and just the entire third part of the book.

I loved Jasper's story! Especially about the part when he met Alice. A really nice quote by him is on my background:
"She was there - expecting me, naturally. I was not sure if she meant to attack. That's the only interpretation of her behaviour that my past had to offer. But she was smiling. And the emotions that were emanating from her were like nothing I had ever felt before."
I was just like, "AWWWWW" when I read that :D

"And you ducked your head, like a good southern gentleman, and said, 'I'm sorry, ma'am.'"
I almost melted!

AWWWWWWWWW :D That is beyond romantic! Jasper is the sweetest! :)

Agreed :)

CHICKENS! :D

PIGS!
Btw..I have baby piggies :)

Awww! I think pigs are cute, even though they are muddy and stuff. And plus, I'm born in the year of the pig :)

I'm a cock lol.
And my pigs are never muddy.
They live inside our barn.

It's funny how fast it went from: how sweet jasper is (I concur) to how cute little piggies are (I also concur) ;)..

45: Do you live on a farm? Alot of my extended family live on farmland/wineyard in the country. It's a really beautiful place and all the people are so friendly :)

46: LOL :) Alot of the conversations on here are really random :D

47> I concur ;) (if you have not noticed, concur is my new word of the week ;)

Lol, Nicky and I love that word.
And no, I live in a neighborhood, but my
family owns farmland and I do some of the work.

48: Yup, that is definitely a favourite word of Alice and mine but you can borrow it :D

49: I wish I could help on my family's farm! But they live too far away :(

Guess what I named one of my show pigs..
Adelaide :)
And I was thinking about you when I was driving home
from Wal*Mart lol. I was thinking that maybe I could get my parents
to give me a trip to Australia for my graduation gift 2 years from now
and I could come see you and maybe stay with you. I would come during
one of your holiday breaks. That would be too cool :)

That would be so awesome! I'd show you all around and we could have one BIG, ENDLESS sleepover :) SQQQUUUUE! I actually had a dream where I met you at the airport, it was so cool and then I woke up and I was like, "Dammit!" :D
And Wal*Mart - LOL :) I love Wal-Mart.

39- OMG! I Love that part!

Pigs are sooo cute! I saw some baby piggies at the zoo, and one was sleeping in it's food. It was so cute!

AWWWWW! :D Piggies is a cute word to say. Piggie, piggie, piggie, piggie, piggie, piggie.

@Alice - and for my graduation present after that, I could ask for a trip to come see you! :)

Haha..
Yes and we would eat a whole bunch of fast food and get really fat :)
This is going to be awesome :)

It wouldn't matter if we got fat together! :D
I have Hungry Jack's (like Burger King), KFC and MacDonald's just down the road from me :) And I live about 20-25 minutes from the beach so we could go down there all the time and they have the BEST icecream in waffle cones .. OME, yum, especially the boysenberry icecream .. YUM! :D Australia in summer is awesome but it sucks in winter :)

Ohio sucks all the time lol.

Lol! It's supposed to be 66 here on Friday, and on Saturday like 26! It's crazy.

It's going to be 70 this weekend.
Then on Tuesday it's going to snow.
UGH!

IKR!

I wish I could be in somewhere warm...

57: LOL!

Global warming peoples. And it sounds weird but Ohio sounds like a warm place. But obviously, it's not :) I've seen snow a couple of times but it was only a little in Seattle. I went outside for like two minutes and touched it. It was powdery and weird-feeling, not how I expected snow to feel. It was sad :( It SHATTERED MY DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see snow like all the time. It get's boring after a while, but it's pretty at night when it's really dark and the whiteness fills the sky.

I can see that in my head. It does look pretty :)

It is. :)

And then it gets all dirty and wet and gross :P

Yup

Yeah, snow on mud doesn't look too good. :)

Message 45: I have just come back from my aunty's farm up at Mannum thats why i havent been on for ages and it was so cool.Although they called me city slicker a million times. I went motorbike riding, horseriding and just having that freedom that country kids have. You cant get that in the city

^ I used to go out every second weekend and stay with my aunt and cousins in the country (Freeling) and it is just AWESOME. You can walk around all day and never feel unsafe or have to worry about rapist or people trying to steal your bag. We used to go and play in the school playground, go catch yabbies in the river, go play footie on the GIANT oval and just have the AWESOMEST time ever. I really miss doing that. :(

I live in the country :)
Cities scare me lol.
But I do want to go to New York..
and ADELAIDE :)

You're lucky. I don't mind cities. Well, ours isn't really that big but still. :) I want to go to .. London (just for a visit) and to .. OHIO :D

You don't want to come to Ohio..
Not at all.
Right when you drive through the border
you will die.....OF BOREDEM!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL :D Alice, you crack me up. But it wouldn't be boring cos I'd be with you! :D

True, true :)
But I would much rather visit you in Australia!

Me too. :) And if you came here, you could meet Leah and Casey and Athina and .. MEEEE :D

I threw that whole graduation present thing out there to my mom,
And she laughed..
But she didn't say no outright so it's a maybe..
I MIGHT COME SEE YOU IN 2 YEARS :)

Well, it's a perfectly decent present! I know people that are going interstate for their 16th. I mean, overseas for a graduation present? That's awesome!
I'll be waiting, Alice. :D

68:Where is Mannum?
Alice it would be so cool if you could come to Adelaide.

I KNOW!
I want to come sooooooo bad!

78: Mannum is where all the men live. Geddit? That was SUCH a lame joke. :D

AND WE WANT YOU TO COME SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD! :)

ditto^

hey do you have the alice choker?

I do.

I want Rosalie's locket.
And Carlisle's ring.
Even though it's techincally a guy's ring. MEH! :D

I want the choker, esmes bracelet and rosalies locket

Message 78: Umm, I'm not sure exactly. Look it up if you're that curious

OMG Alice, I would love to meet you! Although, Adelaide isnt that interesting either. But its so much fun showing people from overseas Australia and its customs.

I want to come really bad :)

And as her BFF, I would escort her to all the awesome places and if she came like at the end of the year, she could come for one week of school to see how our school works. :)

i miss out on the last week of school

Thanks, Athina. :P
No but seriously I keep on seeing these exchange student program adverts on the TV and everytime I see them I think of Alice and I'm like, "It's a SIGN! A heavenly SIGN!" And I think that 'studied in Australia' looks pretty fancy on your college application. ;)

AND you could even stay with Athina b/c she takes in exchange students, she's had two or three in the past year and few months. So you wouldn't be staying with a stranger. :)
Okay, I know this is pretty pointless and far-fetched but I want you to come!!!!!!

I getting one in June and another in November!

I'm getting another Japanese one in June. Its so much fun having an exchange student! Cause you get to show them Australian culture and food and stuff that they dont get to do in Japan.

That would be amazing.
Although, I'm much too poor to even be close to coming there lol.
On the plus side next year we're taking a school trip to Washington D.C. :)

I liked them but I think they were trying too hard to be all "obiedent" and "respectful". Seriously, were they 14 or 40??

@Alice; *pouts* :)

Sorry lol.

94: There grown up like that and they are more conservative than us.

i think that the host is scary but i have not read it and i do not plan to twilight is better!

I just finished the host and it was good. that's about it. It was not better than any of the twilight series but it was entertaining. It did start out slow but it was very good throughout the middle of the story. The end was a bit predictable but ok. I was hesitant to read this as well but I'm glad I did. I can't wait to see what else she comes out with.

I thought it was very very slow at the beginning,
but the ending was amazing!
I loved it :)

I really don't like scary movies, books, etc - but the Host didn't scare me - it was more suspense than scare. I'd say more Sci-Fi than Horror. It didn't keep me awake scared at night - and that IS saying ALOT because I get scared of unsolved mysteries, Beetlejuice, Scooby-doo...

It deals more with relationship issues, loyalties, loss and self-sacrifice.

The Twilight Series have always been my favorite, don't think I'll ever come across a book I like better...

99: I haven't read The Host >_

-gasp- My emoticon! It failed to show itself! :O

i haven't read it either and i read all the time

i havent ethier is it good

i don't i haven't read it Lindsey :)

ok thanks

My friends tell me it's good, and like you, skidney, I read all the time! I don't see why I haven't gotten to it yet :-/

i know right

I did read The Host as well as the Twilight Saga. I can't say I loved it as much but I did find it quite good. I could definitely 'see' it visually and thought it would make a good movie. I did get kind of swept away in the atmosphere but not as much as I did with Twilight. I'm in my forties as far as the age issue.

I read it and it was good. Also I heard that it might have a sequel.

If you haven't read The Host you should. It's a commitment though because the beginning is so slow. If you don't then you really are missing out on a really good book. It was such a haunting idea the tone is a little overly somber, but that's what the books about.

at first i was hesitant in reading the host because i am not a huge fan of science fiction alien stories. i mean, i have read my share but i dont love them like i love fantasy. but this reallly changed my mind on that kind of book. i absolutley loved The Host. i really enjoyed the plot and all the backstory, but it seemed a tad bit redundant because of the whole love triangle thing...