I Am Legend
One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time
One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575079007 (0575079002)
Publish date: August 2006
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 161
Edition language: English
by Richard Matheson Vampires have taken over the world and only one human, Robert Neville, is left, trying to survive night after night while the local vampires taunt him and try to lure him out of his fortress. This is a post-apocalyptic story that reminds me of zombie stories, where a lone survi...
The reader suspects that Matheson has issues. Big ones. With women and anger, primarily. But, as the Spouse pointed out, the first two thirds of "Legend" are brilliant. Neville teaching himself science in order to figure out the world he now lives in, that's quality stuff. His own obtuseness, howeve...
I tried to get into it, but Robert Neville in "I Am Legend" kind of sucks. You feel sorry for him for losing his wife and daughter, but then Matheson will have him talk about how the vampires that are women are trying to seduce him and a few times he has to talk himself out of going outside to them....
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.This was good! I really didn't have this book on my radar until recently. Sure, I saw the movie with Will Smith but I honestly wasn't all that impressed with it. I knew that the movie was based on a book but didn't really feel the need t...
I had to crawl out from under a rock to read this book. I actually didn’t know the first thing about it beyond that it was supposed to be some sort of classic science fiction story. If I had known what it was about, I might have saved it for another time. I’m now realizing that the cover I shelve...
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