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The Host is one of the best written novels I have ever read. It is written by Stephanie Meyer, the author of the Twilight saga; another popular series. The Host deals with the aftermath of an alien invasion. The aliens are more of a “conscious” than an actual being; they implant themselves into their ‘host’.
The story begins when Wanda, one of the aliens is implanted into a human’s body. The body was captured from a resistance member. Wanda is an alien who has been inside many bodies. She has lived on several worlds in different bodies. But humans are the first war-mongering society that the aliens have discovered. They don’t know that human bodies are fiercer in resisting the alien conscience than they are used to. Wanda is the “test”. Everyone before her has gone mad. After the original “owner” of the body ‘takes’ over once again, Wanda leaves the safety of the alien shelter and is captured by the resistance. She is then taken into a mountain sanctuary which the aliens have not yet discovered. There she finds someone who cares about her and soon it becomes something more. But when she meets someone that the original occupant of the body knew, she finds someone who hates her. Can she end the hatred, or will the aliens be driven off the planet?
The ending of The Host is one of the more special endings, the kind which leave you thinking. Can two totally different people learn to understand each other or will they dislike each other until the end of time?
Monday, November 16, 2009
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Chancellor,
ReplyDeleteAnother excellent post. If you like the idea of this book, then you will love “The Puppet Masters” by Robert Heinlein. It’s the story of parasitic invaders from space, that control their hosts by attaching themselves to the host’s nervous system. To give any more information would give away too much of the plot. And of course there is the classic which all of these are based on which is Jack Finney’s “The Body Snatchers”, which went on to become 4 films, including “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” from 1956, another by the same name from 1978, “The Body Snatchers” from 1993 and “The Invasion” from 2007.
Thank You!
ReplyDeleteI felt that this book was MUCH better than the other books by Stephanie Meyer. An I aplaud you on your excelent report on this book.
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