![]() For a novel with so little hope, Matheson does an impressive job of pushing the disappointment. This is the violent, dark and crushingly bleak story of Robert Neville, the last man on a vampire ridden Earth. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought, I know now I was wrong. There was no sound now but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. ![]() I think it’s fair to say that this novel is one of my favourite books. I loved I am Legend the first time I read it, but I’m pretty sure I enjoyed it even more the second time around. Just before doing so, I thought about revisiting I am Legend so that I could do a multi-book post on Matheson. I read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House a few months back and decided immediately thereafter to read Matheson’s similarly titled Hell House. I started this blog a year or so afterwards, and somehow never got around to reviewing the book. ![]() I could not say the same thing about the novel. ![]() I had seen the abominable Will Smith movie with the same title and had been terribly disappointed with that film’s optimistic ending. ![]() I first read I Am Legend about 6 years ago. ![]()
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