Vampires and Scifi - what a Combo. (I am Legend - Richard Matheson)

Member Name: Alindrail

Product:	I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Date:	23/04/01 (83 review reads)
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Advantages: It's short, you can read it in an evening, great book

Disadvantages: None really

This book is better than an Iceland Buy One Get One Free deal!

It follows the life of Robert Neville, a man alone in a suburb who roams the streets during the day collecting things for his home, and killing any vampires he comes across in his travels.

At night he sits at home getting drunk, trying to not listen to hordes of vampires that surround his home, baying for his blood.

The book is short, and sweet, and actually quite frightening for a book of such short length. Everyone has become a vampire, save for our hero, who now has to deal with this, and the fact that he loses his wife and child to this horrendous fate. The book explores the movements of his mind as he swings from varying moods of resolve, and despair.

A beautiful book, exploring humanity and people, as well as taking a whole new twsit on vampires, explaining their origin in scientific terms.

Though written in 1955 it has not suffered overly much from the ravages of time, and though we have now long since passed it's future date of 1975, it works superbly.

These Millennium classics are great!

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