Book Review: I am Legend

[mishalak]

In same ways I hated this story. Sometimes it is the best thing in the world to hate a story, and that's why I loved reading it. It was hard, like reading about an unpleasant episode in history. Yet it was also fascinating and the ending was pretty much totally satisfying, though not happy. It is the story of one man surviving on his own against the horde of vampires that surround his house every night. He is the only person left that he knows of and fights a never-ending battle for survival against his former neighbors. I loved reading this! I recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind Russian sorts of stories. It isn't a happy story, though I've tried not to give away exactly how it ends.

I fricking love the fact that he dies at the end at the hands of the new race of pill eating vampires. The last hunter! It's so bleak and I just enjoyed the story a lot. Though personally I would have gone to the hills and hunted them as long as I could, hopefully to always leave them wondering if there is a human out there somewhere... Hunting.

I totally understand why this Richard Matheson work is considered a masterpiece.