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I know a lot of people dont like Stephenie Meyer's treatment of vampires in the "Twilight" books, but I'm reading a book by her called "The Host" and its dam good.
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Yup it is. I'm glad I
Yup it is. I'm glad I listened to my sister when she gave it to me... She tends to have the same taste in literature as I ;)
The Host is a very good book and soon to be a movie as well
I can only agree that The Host is a really good book! And they are turning it into a movie as we speak. I just hope they do a better job with this movie, than the ones they made based on the Twilight series of books.
For anyone looking for a good Vampire series of books, they should take a look at 'The Night Huntress' Series by Jeaniene Frost.
http://jeanienefrost.com/
That is a link to her wesite where you can read more about her books.
Hugs, Love and happy reading
SaraUK
oh god, I cried and cried
oh god, I cried and cried throughout the whole book! That really was a great one. I hated it when it ended. ^_^'
grtz & hugs,
Sarah xxx
Stephenie Meyer's "The Host"
Waiting for movie
May Your Light Forever Shine
Now I heard the the Twilight
Now I heard the the Twilight books are good, its the movies that blew chunks. The roommate gets dragged to them each time by her sister... Who is 38 and totally gaga over Sparkly twit. She said the movies are bad because the female lead can't act
vampires
people complain about the sparkly vampires but face facts, every writer that does vampires does them different. they use what they what and disregard the rest or invent new stuff. it still comes down the the story they tell with the medium their using. and when has hollywood made a movie where they actually followed the book without changing things. they do sometimes get close but not often.
good point
When I first read Jim Butcher's the Dresden Files, it threw me off with mention of 4 styles of vampires. Of course only 3 have been seen so far. But he did take some liberties with the subject.
I guess I'm turned off of the book from all the teens I know that were crazy over it. I got tired of hearing about it at work and just turned sour to the thought of sparkly sexually repressed vamps.
Give me Bella lagosi any day
audio books
my mom had gotten so reading small print was too hard so my niece came me copies of them on audio and we listened to them while driving. she liked them and I thought they were better than the movies but again most books are. I've only read the first 3 Dresden Files books so far but I don't remember other than black, white and red court vampires so far. but Anita Blake's vampires are not like Mercy Thompson's or Sookie Stackhouse's or Kitty Norville's etc... everyones are different. even here Bailey Summers vampyre's are very different than Susan browns.
Read The Book
I read the book a year or so ago and had no idea who the author was. I knew nothing about the 'Twilight' books other than they were out there. It was some time after reading the book before I made the connection. The paperback edition has an additional chapter left out of the hardback edition. I found it on a book rack in the BX, and read it on the spot. I don't understand why it wasn't included in the original as it explains quite a bit. I found the story quite enjoyable in spite of some geologic mistakes/misinformation. I think the story does have some interesting TG implications. The story is about rape and murder - rape and murder of the mind, and how a different type of being comes to understand what they had taken so lightly.
There are some other scientific problems that beg the question how the whole thing started with the dominant species in the story. The evolutionary path is not discussed. There is a serious chicken and egg problem.
That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. It will be interesting to see how well the movie adheres to the original.
Portia
The people I know that read
The people I know that read it and hate it hate it because the author pretty wrote a Mary Sue, wrote misogynistic plot, had bad dialogue, and was clearly trying to work out some sort of sexual frustration.
Personally, I find the whole movie series creepy because of all the 40 year old women fawning over the 17 year old boys... If we swapped the genders around on that people would be calling paedophilia. I think the series did as well as it did because of all the girls 13-19 looking to fill the void when Harry Potter ended.
It's kind of sad, considering
It's kind of sad, considering Potter was a great book for both genders. Twilight is barely readable if you aren't on a estrogen overdose. I guess it's the same feeling women get from watching porn. Super handsome immortal sparkling prince comes to Bella *puke*. She really did better with "The host".
The aliens weren't that vile as the yeerks from animorphs, but still...
I wonder, did she write a sequel?
Oh my...
I'm only twenty four! I'm not supposed to be feeling old yet and here I am feeling the early warning signs of it. I've not even thought about the Animorphs in quite a while. I was only in... Geeze, about fourth grade, maybe fifth, when they first came out. One of the first actual series of books I really liked. Still is, too. ^_^
Peace be with you and Blessed be
Well in germany they only
Well in germany they only released half the series, so when I got internet and thought about it, I figured it would be cool to read the rest ^^ Well... I was busy for 3 weeks or so until I'd finished all of them :D
It was kind of a great series, but way to drawn out.
A fansite had an e-book version of her remnant series and well... worst series I ever read. Even twilight is better. I mean you have 100 humans escaping the destruction of earth and the rest of the series is about how they die. I wonder what kind of depression she had when she wrote that series.
uh, Celynn...
"The Host" is NOT Twilight. I haven't read it myself yet, but it's looking like it might be worth a look at the first chapter or so to decide if I will.
Twilight, on the other hand, yeah, utter crap. The author even knew it was crap, but someone convinced her to submit it and for some weird reason a publisher actually decided to pick it up. That weird reason may be as you stated, the publisher knew it'd be able to fill that niche, and took a chance that no better book to fill it came out at the same time, a gamble that apparently worked quite nicely for them.
Abigail Drew.
Oh, I know.
I just looked at my comment and realised that I didn't specify what I was talking about, my bad! I was talking about Twilight when I wrote that. People above were discussing twilight and why it wasn't necessarily bad or implied the whole debacle was just over sparkly vampires. I just intended to add my two cents.
I've not read "The Host" or heard any review on it so I'm not making any judgements on it. However, based on the track record of the author I can't see myself independently picking up the story without a lot of coercion from friends.
Let's say I had mixed feelings about The Host
Sure the aliens were 'parasites' but in a lot of ways they had much to teach their human hosts. I also sincerely doubt that human prejudices would have allowed those joined aliens to exist for long.
I am not so sanguine about the superiority of humans.
I am not going to spoil the ending but just let's say I was only half-heartedly supporting the humans in this story.
Kim
Read it first
I read it before the twilight books. I have read it three times and it willbe a part of my permanent library.
Brenda Sands