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| The Host: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $25.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  683 reviews
Sales Rank: 47
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 624
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.6 x 2.1
ISBN: 0316068047
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780316068048
ASIN: 0316068047
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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 The Host June 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Host was awesome :)
i enjoyed reading it soo much. it really grabbed my attention. Though the beginning was confusing don't give up and keep reading. everything starts to become clear soon enough. And once it does the book is just amazing :)
I love Stephenie Meyer's books!
Great Book! June 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anything Stephenie Meyer writes is amazing. Within the first chapter of her books you're sucked in! This book is definately a good read!
 not sure yet June 5, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
haven't been able to get into it yet, not sure if it is b/c i'm busier during the summer or it's just not as good as the Twilight Series.
The Host June 5, 2008
Great book - different style than Twilight series, but very creative storyline and very entertaining.
A thoroughly engaging book June 6, 2008
As a longtime Stephenie Meyer fan, I was anxious to see how her first non-Twilight book would turn out. I am happy to report that The Host satisfies on every level. The various romances are intense and believable, as is the future Earth Meyer constructs. She takes the original and surprising route of portraying alien invaders who, far from being vicious killers, are instead even-tempered and peaceful-- and frankly, no less alien for it, and in their own way no less terrifying. The various themes of the novel-- love, humanity, choice-- draw together seamlessly in the story of a single "invader" who comes to love a human family as her own.
The book may be slow-moving at times, with the action largely internal (in all meanings of the word), but this is Meyer's style, take it or leave it. She gives us a world that is both rich sprawl and intricate detail, and that takes time and space to convey. I can only give my own reaction, which is to say that I was not bored even once.
To Twilight fans, I can say that this book is certainly not a science-fiction recast of the Twilight books. The only character similarity I perceived was a certain bull-headed self-loathing common to both Wanderer and Bella Swan. Both stories contain a love triangle, but the triangle of The Host has a very different origin, very different characters, and a vastly different resolution.
In short, I highly recommend this book, even to those who don't normally read science fiction. Just as Twilight is a vampire book for those don't like vampire books, The Host (like all truly great SF) crosses genre boundaries to present a story that isn't about technology, but about humanity in all its imperfect glory.
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