Whittling down the almost 700 page novel The Host into the two hour movie The Host was never going to be easy-but Andrew Niccol seems to have done a pretty good job of hitting the high points. The Host movie is what The Host novel might have been if an Editor had the balls to tell Stephanie Meyers to rein it in a little. I liked The Host, the story of a race of benevolent overloads who travel the stars looking for populated planets to conquer-and they found ours a few years back. The bulk of the human race has…
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The Host by Stephenie Meyer
first pulished on Technorati Image Robert A Heinlein’s Puppetmasters from the point of view of the alien invaders. Or the Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the point of view of the Pod People. Stephane Meyers’s Host is one more story where there is no black and white, only many shades of grey. The bad guys aren’t really bad, the good guys aren’t really good. The Host is set in the not too distant future where the Earth has been invaded and conquered by small parasitic lifeforms which attach themselves to the victim’s brains. The alien minds are stronger than…