I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
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Author: Richard MathesonEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 0765318741
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Tor Books
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Book Review: Good short stories
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, I picked this book up after the movie came out and everyone was already talking it up. The book is billed as "one of the greatest vampire stories" and while I thought it was good, it wasn't as suspenseful or scary as I had hoped. The novel is very short and ends rather abruptly, and the majority of it is rather tedious. It talks an awful lot about Neville's day to day activities, and the pacing seemed slow, especially for such a short novel. I was irritated by how much liquor and glassware he wasted in the novel, it seemed he was constantly smashing his glass on the floor or the wall. The part with the dog was the best part, really the first time I got in touch with the character. The novel was decent overall, at least for the fact that it seemed much more realistic than the majority of modern vampire stories. If I had read this before all the hype was out, I probably would have liked it more. I just was expecting something else.
I actually enjoyed the other short stories in the book better. They were strange and often very confusing, with all the same outcome: is this person crazy, or is this stuff really going on? Matheson does a good job at making the implausible seem real. The book was worth it just to read a few of those short stories.
Summary of I Am Legend
One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary. --Stanley WiaterRobert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....
Richard Matheson’s classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith. Directed by Francis Lawrence (“Constantine”), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.
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