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The Host rant, Part 2

Hello ladies and gentlemen, here I'm again, presenting you another rant on Stephanie Meyer's fourth novel: The Host. Now I had finished the entire novel and I want to share my point of view, so you might decide for yourselves whether you want to pick up the book or just avoid it for your own good.

Part 1 of the Stephanie Meyer's The Host Rant can be found here: (vampirekiki.deviantart.com/art… )
I'm not going to repeat the arguments which I had already expressed in Part 1.

But before I start, allow me to tell you a few reasons why I was still reading The Host despite all the boredom and stupidity I had already recognized when I was half way through:

1. i don't criticize books that i haven't finished reading.
2. the book is easy to read, with barely any complication or subplot to catch up with; plus i don't even have to check the dictionary for most part.
3. there're a great deal of LOL materials within that so-called SF book.
4. this time we readers don't have to suffer through tons of Meyer's useless adjectives/purple prose on describing Edward's beauty. (thanks god!)
5. Even though 'Wanda' is still an annoying Mary-Sue, she doesn't have emo ranting on everything around her like Bella from Twilight does; that makes her a little less annoying than the latter. (thank god!)

Out of all three of authors who had written recommendation for Meyer at the back of the book, I had never heard of any of them before.

during the progress of reading that book, I just managed to find one more major reason to HATE S. Meyer and her books:

*plot-spoiler warning*

This time I continued in around page 329, when 'Wanda', the pseudo-alien who shared a body with the human girl, was attacked by one of the men from the human resisting group. The guy, Kyle attacked her when she was alone even though it had already been decided that no one was to hurt 'Wanda'.
Kyle beat her up then tried to push her into an underground river in order to drown her. Then out of sheer luck 'Wanda' managed to save herself and also saving the undeserving Kyle from a fatal fall, but then when another human, Ian(Kyle's brother) rushed in to help and saw her bruises, Ian asked what had happened and that stupid, innocent, kind-nature pseudo alien Wanda chose to tell the stupidest lie of she hurting herself all over by FALLING to save Kyle from being punished!! Even Ian, who wasn't all that bright, couldn't buy it cause it was only so obvious that his own brother had beat the crap out of her!!!

Alright girls, does that 'falling' excuse sound familiar to you? Isn't it typical for an abused wife trying to cover up her husband's wrong doing by telling others that she got all the bruise by 'falling' down the stairs or something?

When I read that I was so angry to a point that I wanted to scream, I guess S. Meyer, that crap of an 'author', who was a religious person, had tried to put 'Wanda' as an example of 'turning the other cheek', but DID SHE KNOW SHE ONLY MANAGED TO MAKE JESUS' TEACHING LOOK STUPID, THE SAME LIKE THIS STUPID STORY OF HERS?

I SAY IT'S STUPID BECAUSE S.MEYER BASICALLY TOLD US THAT EVEN WHEN A MAN HURTS YOU, FUCKING TRYING TO KILL YOU, YOU AS A GOOD GIRL STILL NEED TO FORGIVE HIM UNCONDITIONALLY AND COVER UP FOR HIM!!!!

I'm so mad that I wanna find S. Meyer and threw a copy of Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible right in her face!! She damn well deserves it!>___<

I'm okay with 'Wanda' saving the undeserving Kyle, but afterward she should have told the truth instead of lying. But in the story she worried about her attacker's safety as if it was HER fault that Kyle would be punished for his cruel action! That guy tried to kill a defenseless alien, together with the innocent human girl inside!! Justice has to be served! ARGHHHH!!!

if my mother, who is a social workers and had helped abused women for years, ever read such crap she would be even more furious than I do!!!

*end of plot-spoiler*

Then there're a few more extra points to express why I found that book unattractive and unrealistic:

1. Wanda is such an all good, self-sacrificing Mary Sue that i wanna throw up. By the end of the story she's even saving the life of a Seeker(kind of an alien whose duty is to capture escaping humans), whom were hated both by herself and Mel. WTF!???
2. the love-triangle of Ian, Wanda and Jarad is annoying, and it's weird too. it's like there're two men(Jarad and Ian) loving a woman who's with double personalities(Wanda and Mel). That's utterly weird, but again uninteresting, and unrealistic.
3. Wanda's stories of her previous lives in other different planets are just simply BORING, too fairytale-like to become realistic.
4. S. Meyer managed to give her aliens the most stupid names ever in the history of Sci-Fi, e.g. Sunlight Passing Through the Ice or Ride the Beast. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Ho… >Robin Hobb had named her characters far better in her fantasy books!>_<
5. S. Meyer described handful of miracle-working alien's drugs, and she again managed to give those alien's technology the most stupid names ever!
6. The aliens in the story are being described as good and peaceful, while humans are savage, selfish and violent(when they tried to fight back). C'mon I had never heard something as hypocritical as this! What the alien had been doing on Earth is to hack into human's body and drive out the original soul/personality within! It is as good as killing those people! Even though humans had been killing aliens by trying to separate souls from their hosts, still it doesn't mean the alien race had a better moral high ground than human! Face it, both sides had been killing people from the other party!
7. Ian. He's such a pain in the ass! First he beat Wanda/Mel up, then somehow he fell in love with Wanda and started taking her side, from that point onward he became even more of a pain in the ass! I just don't need him to point out how much a good/self-sacrificing alien that Wanda was all the time! I don't need to have that throw in my face all the time!! and in one scene that jerk kissed Wanda/Mel even after he knew clearly that Mel hated him touching her (body), need not to say a kiss! His action is as bad as forcefully kissing an unwilling girl!!
8. even though my English is by no mean good, still when I read the lines such as "the (rock) floor moaned" and "my arms screamed", I just knew something had gone terribly wrong.+_+
9. There're various minor crisis along the line, but all of them were solved way too easily; plus there is no major conflict between the alien race and human. So where's the room for excitement, action and suspense?
10. The Happy Ending: OMG! Everyone got what they want in the end without much trouble and barely any real crisis had ever befallen them! How boring!

Here's the final words: please, there're better Sci-Fi books you can read, drop this one! I really think you would better off watching Keroro Gunso(the Japanese anime/manga comedy that has an army of alien frogs trying to take over the Earth, English name 'Sergeant Frog')!!!!! And S. Meyer please keeps your hands off the field of Sci-Fi!!!

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The Host rant, Part 2

Hello ladies and gentlemen, here I'm again, presenting you another rant on Stephanie Meyer's fourth novel: The Host. Now I had finished the entire novel and I want to share my point of view, so you might decide for yourselves whether you want to pick up the book or just avoid it for your own good.

Part 1 of the Stephanie Meyer's The Host Rant can be found here: (vampirekiki.deviantart.com/art… )
I'm not going to repeat the arguments which I had already expressed in Part 1.

But before I start, allow me to tell you a few reasons why I was still reading The Host despite all the boredom and stupidity I had already recognized when I was half way through:

1. i don't criticize books that i haven't finished reading.
2. the book is easy to read, with barely any complication or subplot to catch up with; plus i don't even have to check the dictionary for most part.
3. there're a great deal of LOL materials within that so-called SF book.
4. this time we readers don't have to suffer through tons of Meyer's useless adjectives/purple prose on describing Edward's beauty. (thanks god!)
5. Even though 'Wanda' is still an annoying Mary-Sue, she doesn't have emo ranting on everything around her like Bella from Twilight does; that makes her a little less annoying than the latter. (thank god!)

Out of all three of authors who had written recommendation for Meyer at the back of the book, I had never heard of any of them before.

during the progress of reading that book, I just managed to find one more major reason to HATE S. Meyer and her books:

*plot-spoiler warning*

This time I continued in around page 329, when 'Wanda', the pseudo-alien who shared a body with the human girl, was attacked by one of the men from the human resisting group. The guy, Kyle attacked her when she was alone even though it had already been decided that no one was to hurt 'Wanda'.
Kyle beat her up then tried to push her into an underground river in order to drown her. Then out of sheer luck 'Wanda' managed to save herself and also saving the undeserving Kyle from a fatal fall, but then when another human, Ian(Kyle's brother) rushed in to help and saw her bruises, Ian asked what had happened and that stupid, innocent, kind-nature pseudo alien Wanda chose to tell the stupidest lie of she hurting herself all over by FALLING to save Kyle from being punished!! Even Ian, who wasn't all that bright, couldn't buy it cause it was only so obvious that his own brother had beat the crap out of her!!!

Alright girls, does that 'falling' excuse sound familiar to you? Isn't it typical for an abused wife trying to cover up her husband's wrong doing by telling others that she got all the bruise by 'falling' down the stairs or something?

When I read that I was so angry to a point that I wanted to scream, I guess S. Meyer, that crap of an 'author', who was a religious person, had tried to put 'Wanda' as an example of 'turning the other cheek', but DID SHE KNOW SHE ONLY MANAGED TO MAKE JESUS' TEACHING LOOK STUPID, THE SAME LIKE THIS STUPID STORY OF HERS?

I SAY IT'S STUPID BECAUSE S.MEYER BASICALLY TOLD US THAT EVEN WHEN A MAN HURTS YOU, FUCKING TRYING TO KILL YOU, YOU AS A GOOD GIRL STILL NEED TO FORGIVE HIM UNCONDITIONALLY AND COVER UP FOR HIM!!!!

I'm so mad that I wanna find S. Meyer and threw a copy of Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible right in her face!! She damn well deserves it!>___<

I'm okay with 'Wanda' saving the undeserving Kyle, but afterward she should have told the truth instead of lying. But in the story she worried about her attacker's safety as if it was HER fault that Kyle would be punished for his cruel action! That guy tried to kill a defenseless alien, together with the innocent human girl inside!! Justice has to be served! ARGHHHH!!!

if my mother, who is a social workers and had helped abused women for years, ever read such crap she would be even more furious than I do!!!

*end of plot-spoiler*

Then there're a few more extra points to express why I found that book unattractive and unrealistic:

1. Wanda is such an all good, self-sacrificing Mary Sue that i wanna throw up. By the end of the story she's even saving the life of a Seeker(kind of an alien whose duty is to capture escaping humans), whom were hated both by herself and Mel. WTF!???
2. the love-triangle of Ian, Wanda and Jarad is annoying, and it's weird too. it's like there're two men(Jarad and Ian) loving a woman who's with double personalities(Wanda and Mel). That's utterly weird, but again uninteresting, and unrealistic.
3. Wanda's stories of her previous lives in other different planets are just simply BORING, too fairytale-like to become realistic.
4. S. Meyer managed to give her aliens the most stupid names ever in the history of Sci-Fi, e.g. Sunlight Passing Through the Ice or Ride the Beast. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Ho… >Robin Hobb had named her characters far better in her fantasy books!>_<
5. S. Meyer described handful of miracle-working alien's drugs, and she again managed to give those alien's technology the most stupid names ever!
6. The aliens in the story are being described as good and peaceful, while humans are savage, selfish and violent(when they tried to fight back). C'mon I had never heard something as hypocritical as this! What the alien had been doing on Earth is to hack into human's body and drive out the original soul/personality within! It is as good as killing those people! Even though humans had been killing aliens by trying to separate souls from their hosts, still it doesn't mean the alien race had a better moral high ground than human! Face it, both sides had been killing people from the other party!
7. Ian. He's such a pain in the ass! First he beat Wanda/Mel up, then somehow he fell in love with Wanda and started taking her side, from that point onward he became even more of a pain in the ass! I just don't need him to point out how much a good/self-sacrificing alien that Wanda was all the time! I don't need to have that throw in my face all the time!! and in one scene that jerk kissed Wanda/Mel even after he knew clearly that Mel hated him touching her (body), need not to say a kiss! His action is as bad as forcefully kissing an unwilling girl!!
8. even though my English is by no mean good, still when I read the lines such as "the (rock) floor moaned" and "my arms screamed", I just knew something had gone terribly wrong.+_+
9. There're various minor crisis along the line, but all of them were solved way too easily; plus there is no major conflict between the alien race and human. So where's the room for excitement, action and suspense?
10. The Happy Ending: OMG! Everyone got what they want in the end without much trouble and barely any real crisis had ever befallen them! How boring!

Here's the final words: please, there're better Sci-Fi books you can read, drop this one! I really think you would better off watching Keroro Gunso(the Japanese anime/manga comedy that has an army of alien frogs trying to take over the Earth, English name 'Sergeant Frog')!!!!! And S. Meyer please keeps your hands off the field of Sci-Fi!!!