Many Auspicious Returns

Well here I am back from my first really long break from livejournal and all 'net contact since back in April. Which, of course, means I am home from Bubonicon 35. I've actually been back since 7:00 local time, but I needed to decompress for an hour reading and another puttering about my apartment. I need to spend some time writing about Bubonicon, but I just didn't feel up to it quite yet tonight. But I should be able to get started tomorrow. Until then I'll upload a few book reviews that I started before I left, but didn't finish.

Book Review: I am Legend

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.

( Spoilers )

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