Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth 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 dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

I'll reading this book for this month... Yay!! ^_^

Me too :)

Then, welcome to the creepy bandwagon, Marco..

Wow! Ain't Chapter 3 a beauty of a scene... God! I like that scene much, can't shake it outta my head! So tight and chuck-full suspenseful... I guess watching the recent movie adaptation stole much of the fun while reading this book... I kinda regretted I discovered Matheson at this late point in time... But not that much is late, Grasshoppah!

I don't like the style of writing...currently halfway through the book.

ETA: It sounds very un-original.

Marco wrote: "I don't like the style of writing...currently halfway through the book.

ETA: It sounds very un-original."

I like Matheson's style. So gritty and it had a very manly resonance to it. Like a desolate desert and it kinda reflect the bleak world he is in.
It's what I call man fiction! yeah!

True, but everything sounds so monotonous.

Marco wrote: "True, but everything sounds so monotonous."

Because his all alone... when all the fun in the world has gone to the dogs.. He can't even enjoy the pleasure of the "flesh", trully one of the subtle dilemmas the book presented...

This one's really impressing me so far...
This is one of those rare books that melded the genre of horror and science fiction so effectively....

In it you'll find why the so called vampires are afraid of the sun.. why is it important to drive the stake in the heart... why vampires are repulsed by the smell of garlic... it's like the vampire myth has been given some credible substance... at least, for someone's credulity...

but I love, love, love, those suspensful moments...

A far cry from its movie adaptations...

Makes me believe that Matheson's a true genius of the genre...

Haven't read I am Legend. Too busy :(
Hard to believe though that this is the same guy who wrote "Somewhere in Time" (for old timers like me, it's a love story starring Christopher Reeve), "What Dreams May Come" and "The Love Letter". Matheson's really good at mixing sci-fi and horror with human frailty, something comparable to Crichton methinks.

By the way, another Matheson short story "Button, Button" is getting a movie make-over. I saw the twilight zone version of it before and I wish I could read the short story. :)

jzhunagev wrote: "In it you'll find why the so called vampires are afraid of the sun.. why is it important to drive the stake in the heart... why vampires are repulsed by the smell of garlic... it's like the vampire..."

These are the vampires in Matheson's world. Not necessarily in Stoker's world. His scientific substance was not even that credible!

Few nags:

Self-pity. Every sentence is riddled with it. Neville is so childish and emotional and is lustful - for vampires? That's weird. And this time I like the film better than the book. Lots of questions are left unanswered at the end, which is plain disappointing. Vampirism as a disease? Highly unlikely.

The book had too much description and too little plot.

Maryse wrote: "Haven't read I am Legend. Too busy :(
Hard to believe though that this is the same guy who wrote "Somewhere in Time" (for old timers like me, it's a love story starring Christopher Reeve), "What Dr..."

AMEN to that Maryse!! And Crichton's also one of my favorite writers...

@ Marco: What could you hope for. The man's all alone with no one to talk to. Seems to me that for him it's a blight that he had to live through all these horrors and be the witness to all of it... So, what would you'd felt if you're on Neville's shoes?
I think Vampirism is a disease most likely to be infected to swooning girls who most likely had read that "darn-you-know-what-boook".... I think t'was a disease when all the boys out there wants to be as cool and as whiny a E. Cullen...

If I were in Neville's shoes, I'd be emotionless, and I'd have my wits about me. Not drinking either.