Let us all lend our eyes to the inscriptions of any who would dare to voice his or her opinion on specific collections of the written word!

A book I believe everyone would like: "The Malcontents," compiled by Joe Queenan. An anthology of satirical writing pieces from the greats :Swift, Wilde, Marquis de Sade, Aristophanes, Twain, Fitzgerald, Moliere, Pope, Cervantes...just to name a few. Pieces extend from excerpts of plays and passages of novels, as well as short stories, essays, articles, and poetry. This compilation is just brilliant, and will not fail to lighten my mood any time I pick it up. Just a warning, though, the book is hefty, very hefty, and even if you're a speed reader, I wouldn't advise absorbing it all in one sitting; it can just be too cynical, over the top. Besides it's outlier status on the intensity scale, this book is a great vessel to showcase the historical prose of the greats, and reveal the theo-socio-political-economic structures prevalent in multiple time periods, as well as the coping strategies used to survive them.

Now I haven't read this book myself, but I've heard a ton of good reviews about the "Twilight" Authors novel which deviates from the usual vampire crap called "The Host". It's basically about a race of parasites which infest the inhabitants of planets as insects and takes them over by such means. However, when they come to Earth they find that humans are particularly resistant to this form of mind control, and the insect starts to feel human emotions and begins to reject the hivemind's control. I'm not going to get into the plot, but it's supposed to have all the action the "Twilight" Series didn't (which i'm still pissed about, btw).
Is there anyone whom read "The Host" that could give a better explanation than this?