I am Leyend
Author: Richard Matterson
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original publication date: 1954
Book description: 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 hungry for Neville's blood.
By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
How long can one man survive like this?
Thoughts:
A very short story and yet it was so well done that it leaves you feeling satisfied.
Neville is not the best MC I've ever seen. I was greatly annoyed by him, by his over-sexualized behavior, how could he spend 75 out of less than 200 pages fantasizing about sex, about wanting to defile a corpse if only to feel some release?
HE is a man, surely he knew how to masturbate. It gave the feeling the only thing he really missed was sex, and not the company of other human beings.
He never stopped having those views until almost in the very end when he had his super timely revelation about the fate of the world. But he became more likable.
It makes sense, he could not be expected to be 100% sane after feeling so lost and alone, his mind had to obsessively latch to something and in his case, it was women to have sex with.
Moving on from that, it was interesting, we see his life in the present and then get glimpses of how his life looked right in the beginning of the catastrophe that wiped humankind of the planet. He researches, not sure how realistic the discoveries are but he does seem to have a lot of struggles to reach the conclusions he deems as the real nature of the plage and vampirism, there is never really anyone who can tell him if he's right but in the end he has it as the most logical explanation.
Overall really enjoyed the story and the ending especially once Ruth comes into play, well that was amazing.
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Original publication date: 1954
Book description: 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 hungry for Neville's blood.
By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
How long can one man survive like this?
Thoughts:
A very short story and yet it was so well done that it leaves you feeling satisfied.
Neville is not the best MC I've ever seen. I was greatly annoyed by him, by his over-sexualized behavior, how could he spend 75 out of less than 200 pages fantasizing about sex, about wanting to defile a corpse if only to feel some release?
HE is a man, surely he knew how to masturbate. It gave the feeling the only thing he really missed was sex, and not the company of other human beings.
He never stopped having those views until almost in the very end when he had his super timely revelation about the fate of the world. But he became more likable.
It makes sense, he could not be expected to be 100% sane after feeling so lost and alone, his mind had to obsessively latch to something and in his case, it was women to have sex with.
Moving on from that, it was interesting, we see his life in the present and then get glimpses of how his life looked right in the beginning of the catastrophe that wiped humankind of the planet. He researches, not sure how realistic the discoveries are but he does seem to have a lot of struggles to reach the conclusions he deems as the real nature of the plage and vampirism, there is never really anyone who can tell him if he's right but in the end he has it as the most logical explanation.
Overall really enjoyed the story and the ending especially once Ruth comes into play, well that was amazing.
*Read more classics.
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