I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of I Am Legend
Book Review: The End
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is very scary. This book makes you think. Just think if were the last of your kind but your not alone you with a race of blood sucking vampires that want to eat you. That will give you something to talk about. I don't know about you, but I would be hinding so they couldn't get me. I would recmoend this book to people 10 and up.Book Review: Classic Vampire
Summary: 4 Stars
If you like vampire books then you'll love 'I am Legend'. It creates a terrifying world where one man struggles to survive alone. Hunted and hunter, he becomes the abnormal; the one different to everyone else, the one to be scared of. Enjoy!Book Review: Highly Original Twist On the Vampire Tale!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those stories you just have to read to believe, and even then you question it. It being what was written, how it was written, and the originality of the story. This is in no way your traditional Vampire tale, very reminiscent of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (although I think this story preceded the movie), except the monsters possess intelligence. The feeling of being alone is invasive on the reader and the whole thing is pulled off with an eerie, dark beauty. There isn't a happy ending folks, it is scary, it is a classic rendition of those fanged demons we all associate with long capes, coffins, and widow's peaks. It is the demonic offspring of that traditional view. And you leave the reading wishing to adopt that ugly child as your own. Essential reading for any horror fan.Book Review: The Besieged Outcast
Summary: 5 Stars
Vampires are usually associated with supernatural or gothic fiction. "I Am Legend" was the first to go against this trend. In this novel Richard Matheson depicts vampirism as a disease and offers explanations for its symptoms.The main character is Robert Neville. He is the only normal man (from our point of view) left in the world, after a plague has turned everyone else into vampires. He spends his days growing garlic, making stakes, and killing every vampire he can find. At night he is a prisoner in his own home. He drinks himself into a stupor. He listens to classical music, which he plays to drown out the screaming vampires who gather outside his house.
This is a good story because it delves into the mental anguish of isolation and the strength of human will. Even though the hero can never hope for a normal life he is determined to survive.
"I Am Legend" has been filmed twice. Ten years earlier I saw the film "The Omega Man". If you really liked the novel you should probably avoid this film, as it bears only a slight resemblence to the book's storyline. For one thing, there aren't any vampires!
Book Review: Gave me chills all the way through
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book on Amazon after I read that it was the inspiration for the Movie 'Omega Man' with Charlton Heston, which is one of my favorite flicks. I was summarily impressed to find out he is a favorite author of the greats like King and Koontz. I was not disappointed by it at all. It had a very thorough, yet concise writing style that is lacking in a lot of today's horror writers (Anne Rice comes to mind) and I couldn't put it down. If you want to see where it all started, here you go.