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Monday, July 21, 2008

The Host


I am glad to report that I have returned from all of my summer excursions. I'm a tad beat though, which perhaps could be due to the fact that Kaitlin and I stayed up to odd hours of the morning eating junk food and watching television. Mind you that's only a theory. Anyway, I am back, and glad to be so. I figured all of you out there would want that reported, but it is not my chosen topic for today's blog. I have instead decided to inform you all on the latest book that I have read. (Hides from all the debris that is most likely being flung at my head). Don't overreact now. Normally I would never pick up a book about aliens, but in this case I made an exception souly because The Host is by my favorite author, Stephenie Meyer. Although it is quite science-fictiony (I don't care if that is not a word, it is in my mind) it is also AMAZING and tied with Twilight for my favorite book. The Host is about an alien named Wanderer who is inserted into a human named Melanie Stryder. By this time, most of the humans on earth have been taken over by these peace-loving "souls" who believe they can run earth better than humans. Unfortunately for Wanderer, Melanie won't go away. She's like a tiny voice in the back of Wanderer's mind. (It gets a tad schizophrenic whenever she begins having conversations with the voice in her head). Anyway, Melanie fills Wanderer's head with memories of the humans she loves, and Wanderer begins to see how wrong it is to take over the lives of humans only to have them disappear forever. This drives Melanie and Wanderer to become allies so that they can go out into the desert to find the small resistance of humans that they know exists. There are plenty more exciting details which I will not divulge at this time, because I don't want to spoil it for anyone who happens to want to read it. Trust me, it's worth it, and I am silently willing Stephenie Meyer to write a sequel. If she doesn't I will be a little more than upset. I guess I will just have to wait for Breaking Dawn to come out to tide me over until I find out whether or not a sequel will be coming out. Oh well. I hope all of you will heed my advice and pick up a copy of The Host. You will if you're smart. ;)




PEACE

11 comments:

beav said...

Yeah yeah...anyhoo, that story that I'm writing...you know, Black Rose. you are just going to have to go to my blackrose121.blogspot.com blog to read it from now on. too bad. sad sad. oh well. If you like it, you'll read it there. Of course, as often that you check your blog, you probably won't read it again until, oh, say, NEVER...or until I finish it. Nice going.

Caitlin said...

I only dont check my blog when Im off doing something for an extended period of time. And i dont know how you are going to read my story because i am definately not putting it up here. you're like 15 pages behind though.

beav said...

15?!?!?!?! *SPUTTERS* Why won't you put up here? And if you say it's because it's not good enough, I will personally hunt you down and eat you alive. You just wait. when you finish it, I'm going to send it off to a publisher and it'll be published and be on the NY Times Bestseller list and you'll be like "Aah, my story idea was already taken." and I'll be like "AAAH!! THAT IS YOUR STORY!!! MWOOHOOHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

PS-I can thanketh youeth if this sore throat feeling I woke up with is an illness.

Caldair said...

Yeah, I think your both too modest. Jusrt admit that your both almost as good at writing stuff as I am!

Caitlin said...

Well at least one of us isnt modest. oh and you are now almost 20 pages behind. I dont want to put it up here because I just don't want to put it up here. Maybe I'll get on AIM one day and type some of it to you.

By the way, how do you put your playlist on shuffle? I have like 20 songs up but everytime I go to it it always plays Take On Me.

beav said...

When you get the code for it and decide color and autostart...it's in that bunch.

Way to not be modest, Ronnie. I'm not too modest. I don't think I'm modest at all with my writing. I just speak the truth.
(after typing modest so many types and thinking modest in my head so many times, it suddenly becomes a hilarious word.)

Caitlin said...

And devoid of any meaning.


Thanks for that by the way. I was getting a little annoyed with my music.

Caldair said...

You are too modest, but looking at it from a totally unbaised opinion, your right, my writing is endlessly better than yours.

Anything is funny if you repeat it a bunch, just look at that movie with Han Solo/Indiana Jones in it (I would use his regular people name, but I forgot/never knew it). He and like three other people are saying Doctor like 805363078 times. It's actually not as stupid as it sounds.
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Caitlin said...

possum is a funny word

Caldair said...

It is now.

Caitlin said...

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