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I read it in two weeks. It's a wonderful book, I dare say better tha Twilight Saga!!!

When are we going to get more of The Host?! Did you move on to Shiver and making a whole new website before finishing The Host even? Why no The Host content? No loyalty to Stephenie and her work beyond Twilight? I'm miffed.

I read the host in about a day and loved it. The setting, the world of the book, was one of the most intriguing I've ever experienced in a book. The host raised many thoughts and discussions with friends.

However, I could guess the ending way before it happened, because it was so Steph. There were many similarities to Bellas thoughts and feelings. But I would not have had the ending any other way, so I loved it anyway. It's an awesome story and very much worth reading.

24 hours give or take :D

I love the host just like i love twilight saga... but i still waiting for the next book if he have a other... and waiting for midnight sun i read the part in the net and its so amazing i would like to know the rest of it...

that book take me 4 WEEKS
i know im read very slow :P
but is good book
:D

I actually am having my boyfriend read the host before twilight... i completely adore twilight, but the message that is sent in the host is a good one. also, SM's writing skills increase as she goes... i think it would hilarious to have him have his own twilightguy blog but he is forever busy with work and his last two years at university... but not to worry! after that, hello Vancouver! here's to hoping that he wont wake up when i pour glitter on him...

what is the host aboutt?

Well i did it in 2 days like all of her books !
I LOVE THE HOST MORE THEN THE TWILIGHT SAGA!!!!
I hope that Stephenie Meyers can keep on writting Midnight Sun and make a sequal to The Host.
Amy-Lee

it took me 3 days but thats cause i had school 2 caus eim only in 7th grade
i LOVE the book
u can kinda see a little bit of twilight in it but it is still a wonderful sifi/romance/adventure book!!!

I can't wait to see what Stephenie will write next. She is an amazing author on any subject! It took me only five hours to read this one, but I've reread it at least 4 times since.

Oh, Gosh, I absolutely adore this book, I even started to translate it in my own language (it's Bulgarian) just to reread yet again! But the first time I read it, it took me around a week..*thinky face*

It actually took me quite awhile to finish reading The Host. I got it for Christmas and I just finished reading it today. But that's because of school and such. But, I loved it. Stephenie Meyer never fails to amaze me.

This book is really good! I finished all Stephenie Meyer's books in less than a week. Though I really can't read just one Meyer book in two hours because I'm not that fast of a reader and I read it word for word, not skipping parts just to get it done... Well, the Host was really nice and I'm really looking foward to Meyer's next book. As far as which book(s) are better... I thought they were all very good, but I actually can't compare book(s) without the same genre (ei Twilight-vampire) and also written by the same author. I have all her books in hard back and perfect condition though and I hope that Meyer can keep on writting Midnight Sun and make a sequal to The Host. I will Definatly but them hard back and keep them in perfect condition. OMG, I just love them so much!
Monica, PrincessPeach168

I took it on a trip to Europe that was suppouse to last two weeks but I finished it in the first three or four days! However, I enjoyed reading it over and over.

I got this book the first day...it tooks me a couple days because the release was right in the middle of band camp with ten hour days so i had to wait til breaks and lunch to read.
I really enjoyed it though, and I do hope she continues it.

I hope this continues, it's pretty good.

yeah...it was super great! I hope she continues with the series. :D

i can't believe i haven't found out about this site until today!
i think it is amazing that you talk about The Host :)
i bought the book when it just came out and i had no clue what it was about and hadn't heard about it before my visit to the bookstore. all i can say is that i am SO HAPPY that i my uncle bought it for me _< it was beautiful and the characters won my heart! it is very much different from Twilight but the chemistry and love is pretty much the same.. all i hope for now is a SEQUEL!!! <3 <3

ha ha i actually bought it like the day after it came out at an airport! ha ha though my parents regreted it because then i like totaly ignored the family we were taking a plane to see

I am really amazed at people who can read a book in 3/2 hours. REally, that would only take me 1/3 or 1/2 of the book or something. I never actually tried reading Twilight for 2 hours straight, the school being the biggest factor why I couldn't.
I did start reading it, and it seems pretty good...I haven't finished it though. >.<

read twilight and new moon then,
i had the host for 2 weeks read the first chapters, they seemed kinda boring...
but read further in and finished it in 4 days(i was working and stuff so i only read it during the night)
and just started eclipse im on ch 10 at the moment :P

It took me about two and a half hours. I read it right after Eclipse because I needed something to hold me up till Breaking Dawn came out. It was pretty good, but not as good as Twilight. For me, anyway.

... I finished the host in a grand total of two and a half hours.

And... Emalee, you're not the only one. I'm going to have to say, regretfully, I liked The Host better than Twilight.

*cringes and waits for ostracization*

That book was AMAZING! It took me about two and a half days to read it, but of course school, and life got in the way, as it seemed to do with many of you. *sigh* I may be the only one in saying this, but i thought it was WAYY better than Twilight, and I never cried. Sorry. BYE

It took me about 3 days of frantic reading. And then I reread it. I think I may be the only one in saying it was WAYYY better then Twilight! And that is saying A LOT as you know. Keep reading!

oooh, it´s great! at the beginning i was like... what!?! but then it got REALLY good. it´s one of my favorites books!

i read it and it is awesome!! beginning is really confusing and boring but its gets really good after the first couple chaps.

I loved it, of course.

I hope SM writes heaps more books... so that i can have a nice collection :)

howcome (almost) everyone on here is a girl? Weird.... It took me a few days to read it. It Was AMAZING. I loved it more than Twilight. I cried so much during this book, my eyes were burning forever! BTW, don't put on makeup....

I love vampire books! This is one of my favorite books. I have to say that Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods series is the best. i can't wait for the third book to come out in December! It's torture waiting for books..

It actually took me a whole day! Breaking Dawn took me 6 and a half hours, and I read both Twilight and New Moon in one day, with Eclipse taking a lot of the next day

I took me about a week cause the
beggining kind of bored me so I read it little by little. Until it got good did I read up in like 2 days. It was really good.
Different from Twilight in a sense.

I haven't read The Host yet(don't think i'll like it better than twilight) but my friend wouldn't go through one conversation without suggesting me to read so I suppose i'll read it.

Took me four days (one day longer than Deathly Hallows) bcuz my mommy took it away for the night. (somthing she also did with all the Harry Potter books and the other Twilight books, except New Moon becuz it made me too emo to keep reading it into the night)

2 days flat :) It was awesome lol

So I just started to read The Twilight guy (Its july) and I love it! I wanted my first comment to be here becouse... (please done't kill me)

I like The Host BETTER then Twilight. Not that I don't love Twilight, I DO!!! Its amazing! There is just something bout The Host that I love...

aaaaah i love the host. i love the twilight series to but i think the host is more mature and deeper and it doesnt just focus on romance. quite interesting and i just couldnt put the book down. i read it in maybe three or four days but thats just me. no one's pressuring you haha. i wish i took more time when reading these amazing books but i cant help it their too good!

Oh, and in my opinion it was better than twilight, if that is possible....
maybe because i connected with the characters on a deeper level than I did with Bella and Edward and Co. ...is it weird to relate to aliens more than vampires?....or humans for that matter?....(hmmm...ponders sanity...)

Yeah, so I am completely aware that it has been months since this was posted. But on the off chance that it matters I read the host in a span of three days. It normally takes only a few hours for me to finish a novel that size but I had school and it was graduation week so I had to play in band and stuff for that and my parents forced me to socialize with them well I was at home instead of running up to my bedroom and gobbling up the rest of the book. So yes, three days but in all fairness it would have taken three hours like the books in the twilight saga had it not been for school!
Anyhow the Host is awesome.
It makes you question humanity as a whole, it really does. Its thought provoking and mind-numbing and gives you real sympathy and emotion for the characters you relate to.
I personally identified with the main character (the Soul) but that is just me.
It will be intersting after you are finished with the twilight saga and everything else you're doing to hear your thoughts on the Host. And see who you relate to.
Bye, melissa

i live in Utah, and on the 6th of June we drove to Idaho for my cousin's wedding. i took the host just in case i had time to read. well, on the following Monday, we began our trip to Oregon for a family reunion. i read straight from Boise, ID to Flourince, OR. (i begged my dad to take a detour to Portland, haha, just to try and see some of the places they filmed Twilight). the entire time my dad was giving me a hard time saying, "when people ask you what you saw in Oregon, what are you gonna say? the pages of a yellow bound book?" or constantly telling me to put the book away and enjoy the view. trust me, the dive from Idaho to Oregon really isn't that majestic! he even went as far as to offer a dollar to the first person in the car to see the ocean. mind you i did look up once in a while to peak at the surroundings. anyways, i didn't have much time to read while at the actually reunion, so i had to wait until we made our journey home on Thursday. we didn't make it home until Friday, and within the last thirty minute home stretch i was reaching the final chapters of the book. i was frantically trying to finish before i got home because i had to go straight. so as i sit in the back of the car reading the last chapters i start silently bawling like a baby!! my nephew gives me the "you've got to be kidding me" stare and asks in his sincerely confused tone, "caitlyn, are what you crying for?" which of course brings on the scrutiny of my whole family! i quickly try to hide the evidence of the traitor tears on my face as i look up to see my parents trying to mask their amusement. and the look on my father's face as i watched him in the rear view mirror was plain torture! all i could muster was "shut up!" and the worst part of all, i only had one chapter left when we pulled in the drive way!! my brother was covering for me at work because we ended up getting into town two hours later than expected due to road construction. so i had to wait four and a half hours to finally finish the book! the suspense nearly killed me. i do have to say that i utterly loved it!!! i hope you enjoy it as well, and word to the wise-if you tend to cry easily, read the end of the book in private!!!!!! trust me!

It took about a week for me to read it and i'm 13 so it probably won't take you as long. it's AMAZING

I got that book. I finished reading it in a week! Its as good as twilight. Hope you enjoy reading the twilight series and the host!

Well....I got it when it came out...and I read the first two chapters and kind of fell out of interest. The other day I ran out of books to read so thought I would take it up again...read it in 2 days. IT was so good. Read it. Love it.

It took me three evenings to read The Host. Every night that I dreamed about what I read. I know. Sad, very sad. I love the book nearly as much as the Twilight saga.

If your really want the truth it took me 3 hours to read the host.

this book was crazy awsome, i read it in 6hours, and couldnt put i down. i wouldnt shun twilight for this though
in my opinion, you want to read any other book other than the twilight series
READ THE HOSt

It took me three or four days. Usually I'm faster, but it seemed like EVERY TEACHER was determined to piss me off with homework. Grrrr

Still loved it. Possibly MORE than Twilight. =]

Since I have an erratic job schedule, I only get to read during the commute, during lunch and before bedtime and it took me nearly a week.

I bought "The Host" to distract me from the long wait for "Breaking Dawn" and "Twilight the Movie".
What I didn't expect is a gem of a story so like and unlike the Twilight saga.

Don't wanna kill the joy out of the others who haven't read it through the end, but all I can say is that Miss Meyer sure has the uncanny ability of making you care a great deal about the people her brilliant mind conjures.

And watch out Edward Cullen fans! Someone in this book is bound to make you fall in love... again.

I finished it in one day, technically two but I started at around 11 in the night and finished the next day at around 3 in the afternoon. I think I may have given the book water damage from all of the crying I did; it made me unusually emotional.

I just finished a couple days ago - it's amazing, I really wasn't expecting to love it this much.

I liked The Host, but I loved her Twilight books. I finished it in about 5 hours total. I made it last several days reading only a chapter here and there. I will not have that restraint with BD in August. NOTE: Her newest book is too much like a Star Trek TNG episode called, strangely enough, The Host. It's about a symbiotic relationship between a "person" and the parasite that inhabits the body. If you liked the book, you will enjoy this episode of ST:TNG.

3 days and i am the slowest read you can ever meet!

The Host is such a great book! I read it in 2 days, but that's because I had school the next day. (I ended up just faking sick the next morning b/c I had fallen asleep at 4 in the morning and I couldnt force myself to get up for school. I did however get up to read The Host) :)

5 hours to be exact..... But not three hours..... How the heck did you do that Sarah??? You must be a super reader!

I hate to rub it in but I am so happy that I did it. I got the book a little later cause I didn't have money May 6 =(

I got the book and read it in less than a day. I couldn't put the book down..... Thank God it was a Saturday! ^_^ lol

I've finished it, and I might love it more than Twilight. Don't hurt me, I haven't decided yet. I have one thing to add, though.

Stephenie has a mean streak!

If you've finished it you probably know what I'm talking about.

I read the whole thing in about three hours - it was brilliant. It's a lot more of an emotional book than Twilight (I cried about five times reading this book), and I'm not sure if you'll like it. It's not squealy-girly; it's mature girly, and despite marketing tags, it's mostly about motherly love. Normal guy-girl relationship love does happen, but it's not really the focus like it is in Twilight.

i'd just like to add on that 1. certain parts had be bawling and 2 . i tried reading it in school but it got to the point where (after several warnings) it was confiscated .

i actually finished it in two and a half days, which is slow for me, but when you factor in school and the fact that i can't stay up till 4am reading as i did with twilight.. i think it was fairly quick. Anyway I loves it, of course.

Three days. Three whole days!

Don't know how long it really took, but, though there are boring romance scenes, it's an okay book. It got better toward the end. Sorry for my previous post if I offended anyone.

If it took you less than six hours, then you aren't just a fast reader, you missed something. Lots of things. 3 and 4 hours is ridiculous. I accuse you all of skipping through lots of it. There are a lot of words on each of Stephenie Meyer's pages in Host, so twenty seconds per page can't be right.
Or perhaps you miscounted. I'ven't finished yet because it sort of lost my interest (Twilight way better), but ten hours is a very reasonable amount of time all told.

I read it front-back around four hours.

Just fyi- I loved it. It was amazing. Just, completely, w.o.w. I was soo incredibly excited about it.

I bought it the day it came out after school, and finished it by midnight.
I LOVED it. I cried so, SO much.
It was such a great book; I can't really even say what should be said about it.

I bought on May 2. I was practically screaming my head off when I saw it. I thought it would come later as I live in Singapore. I took 6 days. I just sat in my room the whole day and just read and read. I love it!

I'm looking at this again. Perhaps I don't read as fast as I thought...

i think it took me, maybe, 3 hours.... but i'mm crazy like that.... it's riveting... of course.

I purposely went slower than normal. It took me about 4 days. I creid a couple of times. The Host was frustrating, enchanting, thrilling, and AMAZING.

Eleven hours. Didn't eat, nothing. Good book.

Gah, beautiful book. Stephenie has the most gorgeous style of writing. I hope I can write my stories in a similar way, so emotional and full of imagery. That is my greatest goal. ^_^

I recommend this book to everyone. It's not a girl book, either, so that is a broad EVERYONE.

It took me less then a day... I didn't put it down it was so good!!!! I ate with it, straightened my hair well reading and ignored the teachers that tried to take it a away. When my mom made me turn of my light( at like midnight) I used my ipod as a flashlight.

Unfortunately I cannot reread it yet because I have about 20 people who want to borrow it!!!

Why does it have to be so friggen huge and expensive!!!!

1 and a half day now i am re-reading it9

I finished it in 4 days, working full time and sleeping 8 hours at night. I absolutely loved it. I cried a lot too.

I bought it the day it came out, but real life got in the way, but then on tuesday I was sick so I stayed in bed all day and read the host, and finished it in a day and a half =)

It was very good! I think I still like the Twilight series better though...

Finished it in one day...okay well two if you count the fact that I finished it at 2 in the morning of may 6th after getting it on may 5th at like 3ish

The Host took me about two days to read it. I got it friday night around 8:30 at night and didn't start reading it until midnight, then saturday I read it while trying to get ready for prom and help my friends get ready for prom, then on Sunday I couldn't stop thinking about it as I was chasing little kids trying to get them calmed down enough for children's church. Plus it was mother's day. but somehow I was able to finish it sunday evening.

I finished all three books in the Twilight series in four days. that was interesting...

got it tuesday night and read ad much of it as i could what with school and friends and finished it saturday night.

And i cried SO many times!

I absolutely love the host! (Like Pheonia ^above^) It took me a while to read the first few chapters, but after that i finished the rest of the book in two evenings!

I read the first 5 or 6 chapters the day it came out, Tuesday. I finished it about 12:30 am (Thurs). I read all day long, in between taking care of my kiddos. I'm a fast reader though and couldn't put it down.

I loved it... but I almost stopped reading after the first few chapters... they were kind of slow and confusing.

but as with the first few chapters of twilight beginnings for meyers seem to be her weak point and endings her strong point. read past chapter 3 and you wont be able to put the book down.

(took four hours to read the book...)

Bought the book the day it came out and finished it Monday night (staying up late despite two finals the next day). I'd say that in total reading time it probably took me 6 hours, given that I was trying to draw it out and read slowly. Would have finished it sooner, but I had to study for finals and went to a prom over the weekend as well.

It took me 2 days to read the book, haha. And after a few days of a break away from it, I went back and read it again. When I absolutely love a book, I keep reading them again over the course of the week. I absolutely love the book! I was a little baffled at some parts, but it was amazing.

i don't want to say i liked it better than any twilight series books but it was just so different. it was...i don't know...amazing

it took me about 8 hours spread over the course of 3 days and a morning. i too had way too many projects one of that i am supposed to be working on right now. It was so captivating and i cried my heart out. it was kind of embarassing because i was at a wedding reception and everyone is supposed to be all happy and here i was crying while reading a book. oh well, most of the people there knew me...so...and the other ones i would never ever see again so Who cares....

i absolutely loved every word. It was so captivating. my friend bought it for me the day after it came out and gave it to me at school that thursday morning. we think i liked it a lot more than her. she wanted wanda to end up with jared in the end but i like it this way. OH i loved it. talk about major thought provokey!!!

i bought it on the tuesday it came out and started reading it and ended up staying up till 5 in the morning, my mom was not happy because i had to miss school. because i couldnt stay awake, it was great cuz i read it again

It took me two days to finish The Host. Of course I didn't do anything else, and that was the weekend before finals (bad idea - my grades would've been better if Stephenie Meyer hadn't had a dream about a vampire).

I ditched school last Tuesday to go pick up my copy of The Host (my sister in Utah had to camp outside Borders to get her hands on a copy) and I finished it this past Friday.
I thought it was Stephenie's best book yet. It was absolutely fantastic, and I will dare say that I liked it better than I've liked any of the books in the Twilight saga.

Ugh, I haven't finished it yet! I've been working all day (8-9 hrs), homework and other things that I don't have much time for reading. My dad even read it before I did! He had it read in at least two days and loved it. I'm working on it, though...I'm about halfway done with it so far.

It took me 3 days to finish the entire twilight saga that is currently available. it took me 3 days to finish this one book. school got in the way :( but it was really good. I came to a conclusion:
~stephenie loves:
~love triangles
~anti-social girls
~weather
~and men you shouldnt love



read it :)

I finished it in 3 days, and I reluctantly had to go to school... if I didn't it would have been done waaaay before that! It's really brilliant in every way, Stephenie just has a way with words :)

I can't say that i read the Host without distrations. The many mandatory things such as school, homework, and work created unwanted waiting and wondering for me. But I have to say that i read about 100 pages in about 2 hours. So i guess you could say that i read it under 12 hours. Not too mention how many nights i went to bed on a school night at 2:30. Not because i wanted to go to sleep but that if i kept reading... i would fall asleep unintentionally.

Stupid, stupid, stupid school! And stupid sadistic teachers-who-enjoy-giving-enough-work-and-tests-to-last-at-least-four-years.

I've been reading for two days, getting about one and a half to two hours of sleep, and I'm almost done (there is no way I'm complaining about the lack of sleep....The Host is definitely worth it)!

I read it in three days. I don't think its fair to compare it to 'twilight'. They're entirely different. Its not as fast a read, but its compelling in a different way. I liked the development of the characters, although I think it was pitched wrong. Its not really about three people being in love with only two bodies. It's more about an alien finding out what its like to be human. Hope you enjoy it.

AHHH! The Host was so good! It took me about a day... I rarely put it down.

5 1/2 hours!!!! (give or take a little) I have a bad habit of not being able to put a book down after i start it ;)
And I must say it was written brilliantly!!

Read it in less than 48 hours, while sitll doing trivial things like eating and sleeping and spending quality time with my husband so he wouldn't feel completely ignored. I haven't pulled an all-nighter since before I got married, but I was up past 3 a.m. at least one night on this one. I love everyone's excuses for why they couldn't finish in under 4 hours! LOL :-p I laughed at Jenna's "pull a Deathly Hallows" phrase--very appropriate. And I am much like Jennifer, in that I like to go slowly and absorb all the details. It does suck you in and won't let go. I am glad to hear I wasn't the only one who cried. It was awesome! I still like the Twilight books better, but this is right up there with them. ...p.s. hey 'L.'and 'Nora' from Norway--I'm an Aase:-) (my father-in-law is from Stavanger.)

I took me about six hours. I loved it!

I started reading it Saturday , late afternoon and was finished by late Monday night. I totally let my kids fend for themselves most of that time. They could have been playing on the freeway and I wouldn't have known about it. I did manage to go to work & church so I wasn't reading uninterrupted, but I tried. The book is great & I even cried.

I got my copy on May 10th and finished it last night >.>

Great book!