--- Graham Powell <
bleekerbooks@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I AM LEGEND (more spoilers) is about a monster
who
> creeps about while
> everyone else sleeps, and murders them in
their
> beds. Sort of. Actually
> the "monster" is the hero, who is the last man
on
> Earth who has not
> succumbed to a disease that has turned everyone
else
> into a vampire. The
> novel sort of drags on, but has a nice
wrap-up,
> where the narrator realizes
> that he will be the bogeyman for the new race.
I
> personally don't think
> this novel deserves all the attention it has
gotten,
> but it's not bad.
>
>
> Graham
I'd say what little attention has come to I AM LEGEND has
come more from the film adaptations than any general
breakthough into the mainstream conciousness. I AM LEGEND the
book deserves far more attention than it has got if only
because of the audacious ending, it is almost a perect novel
and it certainly harnesses all the best of Matheson's themes
which in many of his other stories are simply akward.
Jesse
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