Anyone Else read "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson?

Not sure I want to read it now I know the main character turns from being a forlorn loner into a genocidel madman over the course of the story. You've just given the game away. Bet the author will be pleased with you.

Terrific book, made into a movie THREE times now, the latest one with Will Smith.

The book is much better than "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price, or "The Omega Man", starring Charlton Heston, but then, books are almost always better than movies, simply because in your mind, the story is seamless, the monsters perfectly scary, etc. Movies take all that and destroy that fragile connection between author and reader.

Richard Matheson has written dozens of novels and short stories, some of which have been made into movies before, such as "The Incredible Shrinking Man", as well as others. Remarkably, Richard Matheson's SON (Richard Christian Matheson) is also a published writer of short stories and novels. One of his first collections of short stories, "Scars and Other Distinguishing Features", has some fantastic fiction in it.

The 40's and 50's are generally considered the golden age of genre fiction Before easy access to free entertainment thousands of short stories and novels were serialized in cheap magazines or published in 25 cent paperbacks. Check out some of the science-fiction, crime or even westerns from this era. You'll be surprised. I doubt if "I Am Legend" could be published today.

Yeah, I've read.

A REALLY good book, that totally reverses the whole vampire genre.

A film version of it was made some time ago with Charlton Heston as Robert Neville called 'The Omega Man'.

A remake is planned with Will Smith as Robert. Personally, I think that is a VERY poor piece of casting.

I read it years ago. Actually, you probably make a good point about character development. I read it, at the time, as a portrait of a guy alone at the center of his universe. Although he was alone and could do whatever he pleased, in theory, it seemed very oppressive in atmosphere. He was a prisoner of his alone-ness.

I agree Matheson is a wonderful writer.

I read this a few months ago and was very suprised by how good it actually was. When my boyfriend said 'science fiction' I imagined all sorts of things, but it's actually a very well told story of one man's isolation as the last remaining one of his 'kind.'

It's the part with the dog I find particularly touching - I was devastated when it died!

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It is indeed a great book and along with "Duel" was made into a film.

The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/