Yes, I actually bought the book. But don’t worry — I’ll finish Twilight first!
Many and multiple hundreds of apologies for not getting to the next chapter today! I am just super busy getting ready for a far northern flight for my friend’s graduation and will be reading the long-awaited Chapter 8 very very very early Thursday. And I promise, tomorrow’s TwilightGuys Report will make up for it! You can’t miss the one for tomorrow. I had to get a photo it was so sweet.
I am curious, however, how long it took everyone to read The Host? It is, after all, rather thick! But at the rate you people gobbled down Twilight, my guess is an average of two hours (probably less 😉 ).
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i haven’t bought it yet! 🙁 I live in southampton, england, n they haven’t got it at the closest bookstore D: But i’ll keep looking!! 😉
I’m still reading it…but of course I have school…and AP tests 🙁 But I think I’ll be done by Friday.
I read the book this past Sat. I started at 3 in the afternoon and finished it at 1 am. Yes, I read fast. I LOVED it!!!
Lucky! I don’t think I’ll be able to buy this one, I’m waiting for my library to get it in.
Hmn. Well, I might have to wait a while before I can get it at the library (sorry, I rarely buy books). But if it’s a good book, it wouldn’t take me too long.
Um…I got it yesterday, and I’m still working on it.
It’s really good.
school gets in the way, other wise I would have spent the night reading it, but I have finials to take.
ew.
😛
I started reading it Friday night and finished it Saturday night. IT WAS AMAZING!! 🙂 Very different from Twilight, but still great.
Got it the day it came out, finished it Thursday. (That’s with school and way too many– two– projects.) Now it’s with a friend, who’ll finish soon and pass it on to another friend. We’re thinking I’ll have it back on Friday. It’s amazing.
Sadly school’s been taking up time so I haven’t been able to read much. Only on chapter 6.
I actually just finished it last night. I bought it the day it came out….
I LOVED IT! My second fave book, after Twilight, of course. But OMG SQUEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
kya kya kya kya kya!!!!
I also cried alot while reading it! OMG I cried more than I did while reading New Moon =O Shocker! But yeah, the book is amazing, I loved it, and I’m starting to regret my decision to let her borrow it…. If it comes back dented she will have to deal with me!
Just an add on to my last comment,
SCHOOL SUCKS!
I actually get in trouble for reading in class, if not I would have finished waaaaay sooner.
I read it in like 2 days and then reread my favorite parts over again like 3 times. It was fabulous! 🙂
I’ll freely admit that even though I got it more than a fortnight ago (Australia got it early) I still am only through the first 100 pages. I’m too busy!
All together if I were to read it front to bqack, it would have taken about 6 hours. But I hade school in between and work and such, so I finished it Friday morning after buying it Wednesday night.
~Kimberley
The Host was AWESOME!! i picked it up over the weekend and sorta, kinda put it off b/c i was worried about reading it. I thought it wouldn’t be as good as Twilight so i wanted to get used to the idea of reading it. But i just finished about and hour ago and it was AWESOME!! it was great!!! I still LOVE TWILIGHT but I LOVE THE HOST as well! I cried alot during this book! but it was worth it! Everyone needs to read it.
If I weren’t in the midst of my English research paper, it would be done by now.
It took me about 2 days to read ‘The Host’, but I didn’t read it straight through. Work and school keep me a little busy.
I got it after school the day in came out, finished after school two days later. I would have finished the first day if not for school.
I’m going relatively slow with The Host. It’s amazingly awesome, I’m just not staying up into the wee hours reading it. I’m actually hoping to savor it a little. Although when BD comes out, I know I won’t have this kind of restraint.
I got it the day it came out and finished it in about 5 1/2 days, but thats with out giving up my life duties 🙂 I loved it, it was very different from Twilight but i still fell like Stepheie out did herself once again.
I actually bought The Host on Wednesday, the day after it came out, yet I didn’t actually read it until Thursday (I was finishing up Stephen King’s It awhile, winning a bet against my boyfriend… but that’s another story entirely).
Anyway, it only took me about three days to finish it, but that’s because I had a very busy weekend that mainly consisted of hour long commutes early in the morning and late in the evening when the sunlight waned.
Nevertheless, it was completed, and I was greatly pleased with the story. Trust me, you will love it too! It’s much different than any other book I’ve read, but I love it as much as the Twilight saga!
I got The Host on last Tuesday and finished it by Friday. If it werent for school I would have read the whole thing in one day. It’s a great book, but I still love Twilight more.
I got it on the 6th, and finished it the 12th. I would have read it faster, but we’re on vacation right now, and didn’t have much time to sit and read! I am thinking of rereading it again very soon, I loved it!
Took me 19-20 hours to read…almost a full day. COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN!!!
…that or I’m completely obsessive.
grrr… havent gotten it yet!
Um, I think I took around two-three days. I couldn’t put it down! I like it as much as Twilight (and thats saying something!)
I started reading it two nights ago, and I’m half way through–but that’s only because of school and homework. If I didn’t have either occupying my time I would have been finished in a day. Too bad I don’t have a block of time big enough to spend reading consistantly.
Oh well, I’m excited about the rest of the story…though not nearly as much as I was with Twilight.
oh good; you’ll enjoy it (:
and i read it in less than a week.
i would have finished it earlier, but my mom threaten to take it away if i read too fast 🙁
i’ll have to hide Breaking Dawn from her…
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t gotten around to reading The Host just yet. BUT its only because i have to finish re-reading Eclipse again. Because I missed a lot the first time around. But I will get to it! I’m not sure how long it’ll take me though, depends really. 🙂
The Host was so amazing; I just could not put it down. I bought it late Tuesday night and began reading on Wednesday at school.
I read during class (and got it taken away, only to be given back once I begged and cried to my teacher), in the car, in the bathroom, at lunch (where people would call me anti-social because I sat at the end of the table completely absorbed and unaware of everything around me), and wherever else possible. It’s funny because while I was reading, I tended to get really in to the story, and my friends would laugh at me because I’d either be making a really intense face, or smiling, or frowning at the book. At the end, I cried like a baby, and I’m glad that I was in my room for that part, because I would not have been able to contain myself in public :].
I finished in 5 days.
And that’s because I was taking my time…
I bought it thursday stayed up till 4 in the am on friday, and then again till 4 in the am on saturday!! Just as dangerous as twilight!! I loved it! of course it is no Bella and Edward, but LOVED IT!!!!!
I loved the Host!! My mom got it for me on May 6th, the day it came out and I finished it on the 11th! That is pretty fast reading, atleast for me. I’m sure others read it way faster….but Oh well.
I’m ashamed at how long it took me to read it. Three days. In my defense, I was more busy than usual in those three days so I could have done it faster (and I sure wanted to).
I bought it on Tuesday (May 6th) after school and finished it on Friday night.
Had it not been for school, I probably could have finished it earlier, haha.
im still reading it!!!!! i got it on 5/10/ and i am right now on chapter 19. it is not as good as twilight i mean, there NO EDWARD!!!!!!!!! and jared just doesn’t cut it for me. (my friend pointed out that there is a jared in new moon also!!!!) but if i read it more slowly, i’ll have something to read until breaking dawn comes out. 🙂
So far the Host is really good, but it is very different from Twilight. I’m at about page 550 and I started the day it came out. I hope to finish it this week end. I would have read it faster but school, and AP tests, and my odyssey of the mind team is going to world finals so we are doing loads of fundraising, have all been there to slow my progress.
It took me three days partly because I had school but mostly because I just didn’t like it as much as Twilight.
With Twilight I could NOT put it down. I read it until 2:30 in the morning on a school night the first day I got it. And then I read at school too. Then I had HORRIBLE withdrawal. As soon as I finished I started over again. I missed Edward.
The Host frustrated me often. I didn’t like Jared as much as Wanda or Melanie. (Ian lover from as close to the beginning as was reasonable.) Sometimes I would just have to put it down for a while.
Trust me though. I am going to pull a Deathly Hallows (15.5 hours) with Breaking Dawn. and then read it again and again and again.
3 days. Hey! I couldn’t do some “sick” days like I did for Twilight ya’ know!
Hey, Kaleb! 😀 The Host was amazingggg! (though not as good as Twilight) I seriously started reading on Friday, and was done last night. But continue with Twilight! My friends wanted to put me in an asylum for my Edward/Twilight obsession, but when I insisted it should be in Forks or the town of Carlisle, MA, they gave up on me. Like any other sane person would. But I have EDWARD! <3
Good luck, Kaleb, and keep reading!
🙁 Not out yet in my small town in Canada, I will be getting it soon. XD two hours? With stef meyer books you have to read it as quick as you can to find the good parts! I read Eclipse in 7 hours, 6 were straight lol but that was in the summer it’ll take me a while to read The Host (when I get it) because of school
I got it on Sunday, started reading am half way through–and then Monday came and I haven’t been able to read ANYTHING AT ALL since.
Half day and all night. Bam! Done. And as blasphemous as it sounds, I like it more than the Twilight series. I think. But then again, I have yet to devour Breaking Dawn and Midnight Sun (and anything else Mrs. Meyer dishes out). Yet. *B
i got it as soon as it came out (after waiting in line from an ungodly hour of the morning) but then had class, and work. so i started it around 6ish, and finished somewhere after midnight. my body was angry with me though, i couldn’t eat or sleep for about 24 hours i was so excited.
Go it Saturday and I’m on chapter 34….
My mom just said that I could actually read it today. (it took asking Alphie to get her to let me read an audult book) IT MAKES NO SENSE UNTIL THE SIXTH CHAPTER!
But now only a few things are unclear.
Otherwise great.
Of course the fact that I can’t spell ADULT righ may have something to do with my mother having to be placated so I could read it…
w/e
You’re close. I bought The Host last Tuesday, and I started reading it Friday night into early Saturday morning. Took me(and I timed it) 4 hours 38 minutes and 50 sec, give or take a few minutes. I was going back and forth between Twilight news and reading. It was definitely worth staying up till the wee hours of the morning 😀 And I might say it’s a little bit better than Twilight because the emotions are more mature in The Host, whereas Twilight is centered on teen emotions, but I still love both books equally.
10 hours, I believe… It was intense. I couldn’t bring myself to put it down despite the test I had early the next morning. 🙂
Having rediscovered my love of reading now that I’m done with college for the summer, I can happily say that I finished in 5 hours 🙂
Good luck on the Host!
I read it in two days, but take for granted that I didn’t have much time to read both days. In total though it was about six hours xD