Name: I Am Legend
Rating: 3.927165354330709 (254 reviews)
ISBN: 9780312865047

Richard Matheson

A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day

I Am Legend

Patrick Book

Having seen all the adaptations, I didn’t realize how horny the original story was.

Robert Neville is the last living man on earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville¿s blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this?

Joe Ross

I am a lover of zombie/horror fiction. This book is execeptional in genre because of the incredibly paced and detailed characterization of the main character. The "science" behind the epidemic is well-addressed as well.

Erik Wallace

I picked this up based on the recommendation of a friend. With no expectations and having not seen the movie I was pleasantly surprised by the story. I would give I Am Legend 4 or 5 starts on it's own, what I did not realize is how short the story was and that the rest of the book was short stories. I didn't even realize that I had finished reading I Am Legend until I was a few pages into the first short story. The other stories aren't without merit, some are pretty good and have similar themes, but I enjoyed Legend considerably more.

Sade A

I'm just going to start with saying The Will Smith movie doesn't properly capture the character "Robert Neville" 
That being said this book is definitely AMAZING!! You can practically feel Robert's despair, the lack of hope.. You're rooting for him and at the same time so afraid for him..When he ends with the quote "I Am Legend" even though the end is staring him in the face, I can't help but be happy for him.

My favourite SciFi book. RIP Mister Matheson.

Kayleigh hughes

I'll add a proper review later but for now all I'm going to say is that if you're considering reading this DO NOT see that abomination of a movie with Will Smith. And if you have seen that movie and are avoiding the book because of it, then please give the book a chance!!

Casey W. 

I just didn't care about Robert Neville. He's in a terrible situation, but I just didn't care about him at all. I found his experiments interesting, but that's about it.

Amy Troschinetz

I Am Legend has what I consider the best chapter out of any book I've ever read. Depressing and thought provoking at once.

Katie

This book follows Robert Neville, who is the last man on Earth (or at least as much of Earth as he can reach) in the midst of a post-apocalyptic wasteland where vampires have taken over.

It was a lot more introspective than I thought it would be. I thought this would be an action-packed survivalist story. Instead, it mostly deals with Neville's trauma and how he deals with losing his entire family and being constantly pursued by vampires. He is not a particularly likable character, but I also don't think he's meant to be. The way he thinks about women is super gross, and that really turned me off from him as a character that I'm maybe meant to root for?

The story jumps back and forth from before the apocalypse, and how it came about, following Robert Neville and his family as they try to avoid catching the sickness that became the vampire plague, and then it jumps forward to him trying to find a cure for this disease. I liked this story structure and slowly putting the pieces together.

Overall, I wanted to love this a lot more than I did, which seems to be the standard refrain for pretty much every older book/classic that I read. Maybe I just need to give up the ghost :(

Jeremy Anderberg

Enjoyable, early take on the vampire genre. Way different from the movie, in a good way.

Maytal

Um that was okay but him constantly talking about how horny he is and fighting the urge to rape corpses or vampires was a bit weird.

Danica Holdaway

Very short and cool, but I really wish he would have written more about the scientific part of Neville's studies. Also, I expected it to be more like zombies from the movie instead of vampires, but it's still good.

Anastaciya

For some weird reason I really don't like Robert Neville 🙈 but the story itself is great. The best ones are short and to the point.

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