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In January 2009, when President Obama was sworn in, a gallon of regular gasoline cost $1.68.
Today, it's more than double that: The price has reached $5 in parts of California and $6 just outside Florida's Disney World. In fact, prices have set a record, being so high so early in the year. By Memorial Day, America's first big travel weekend of the year, gas nationwide will average $4 and above, industry analysts predict.
Candidate Obama made political hay of the issue throughout 2008, boldly asserting that he - and he alone - was most able to bring prices down. He repeatedly said there was "no silver bullet" and "no quick fix," but on the campaign trail in Indianapolis, he told Americans, "You shouldn't have to accept any more excuses as to why it can't be done."
More than three years into office, that's all Mr. Obama offers - excuses. He blames oil companies for making a profit; blames "speculators" for pushing up the price of oil; blames Congress for not doing away with oil-industry tax breaks; blames world producers for limiting outflow to drive up prices.
But this past weekend, the president made a startling claim: "Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years."
The claim is true, but as always, a very crafty lie of omission. America is producing more oil than eight years ago, but not because of anything the president has done. In fact, production is up only because Americans are resourceful and have battled past the obstructions Mr. Obama has erected.
"Since taking office, he has declared 85 percent of our offshore areas off-limits, decreased oil and gas leases in the Rockies by 70 percent, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline and has 10 federal agencies planning more regulation of hydraulic fracturing, which is key to oil and natural-gas development," says Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.
The administration's own Energy Information Agency "estimates that oil production in the Gulf was down 22 percent in 2011 and projected to be down 30 percent in 2012" after Mr. Obama's Gulf moratorium policies were put in place, the API said.
So, how on Earth is America producing more oil? Because of action taken by President Bush, and even his predecessors.
"That production is a direct result of leases issued before this administration and as result of development on private and state lands," Mr. Gerard said, according to Fox News.
"On private lands, oil production is booming," wrote Fox reporter Jim Angle. "In North Dakota, the oil and gas are on private or state land and beyond the president's control. The state has gone from producing a small amount of oil to some 450,000 barrels a day. Unemployment is 3.3 percent, the lowest in the country. And the state has a budget surplus in the billions."
In this weekend's speech, Mr. Obama made more excuses. "There are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices." Wrong. In fact, just saying America is going to drill for its own oil has a dramatic effect on prices. In July 2008, when gas was $3.28 a gallon, Mr. Bush lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling and urged Congress to lift the federal moratorium. Crude-oil futures plummeted nearly $10 the next day, the largest decline in 17 years.
What's more, early in Mr. Bush's tenure, debate raged over opening a tiny part of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling (just 8 percent of the more than 19 million acres in the reserve). Democrats killed the Republican proposal, saying the billions of barrels of oil wouldn't come to market for a decade.
In 2012, that oil - estimated at 1 million barrels a day for 30 years, nearly the amount the U.S. imports from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela - would be flowing.
Just last year, Mr. Obama said, "Our energy policy still is just a hodgepodge." It is just that today. Yet the president continues to push "green" energy, claiming the only answer to America's problems is to pursue an "all of the above" strategy. Last week, he said his administration is forging ahead with alternative-energy sources such as "a plant-like substance, algae."
Yes ... pond scum. Mr. Obama is officially out of ideas.
But one claim he made this weekend is absolutely true: "In 2010, our dependence on foreign oil was under 50 percent for the first time in more than a decade."
The reason? Americans can't afford to fill their cars up anymore.
A few months ago, exactly a year out from Election Day 2012, Mr. Obama pleaded for support: "I'm going to need another term to finish the job."
But America can't afford four more years of trying to turn a community organizer into a president. They'd be better off trying to turn pond scum into fuel.
• Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Sanders is quicker than Brown, if you look at combine numbers (40time and 20yd shuttle) but im not sure I would label him more elusive in tight corners..its pretty damn close though and maybe even too close to call
That play by Polamalu where he gets stuffed at the line, then backs up and regains momentum and makes the tackle on the RB and rips the ball out and then recovers the fumble is just simply Awesome
Man, that is a tough call.
I have been having discussion regarding how high people rank AB in the league.
Obviously AJ, Calvin, Dez and Julio I would choose before AB. The other tough arguments are Fitz, demarious and Andre Johnson. But beyond that, it's tough for me to name receivers I would choose over him.
But if you look at all those receivers, they are physical specimens and all 1st rounders. What's more, is that teams have a corner like an Ike as the first corner to cover tall/physical receivers. I believe this corners have issues with AB, (see joe haden). It's like a shooting guard trying to cover a point guard.
Is there any chance of Jones being moved inside and leaving worilds on the left and putting woodley on the right? Seems crazy to even be thinking of getting rid of woodley?
I agree with your first list and I would add Demaryious Thomas to that list as well, but after that I would take Brown over anyone including Fitz and A.Johnson based purely on their age and I'd be alittle hesitant about having Dez Bryant but only based on off-field issues.. Jordy Nelson is another intriguing WR but I'd be hesitant with him based on injury history
"[Polamalu] had his best game in years against the Browns, even with the dropped interception." That kind of makes it sound like the "dropped interception" was a negative play. He made a great play. Didn't hang on, but most other guys wouldn't even get a hand on it. That play added to the success of his day, it didn't take it away.
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OECD is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Yes, that is "Organization" with an "s;" it is an international organization (organisation?) representing 34 countries (which explains why it got stuck with the European use of "s").
This year's conference was the first hosted by the United States. It was by invitation only, and I somehow managed to parlay my interest into an offer to attend. The conference was small – it appeared to have a roster of about 250 attendees, many from other countries which, by design, layered an international flavor of the program (one A/V technician gave up when a speaker and live interpreter talked over each other for an entire session, rendering each of their words unintelligible).
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I don't say I will fetch the moon… I make realistic promises: Bansal
IT'S 7 am. With garlands and party flags in hands, members of the Chandigarh unit of the Congress wait for the arrival of their candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal. Scarfs with party colours are distributed and arrangements checked. As Bansal's car arrives, slogans fill the air. Amidst beating of drums, Bansal, along with partymen and local residents, embarks on a padyatra, interacting with people as he passes along.
As the incumbent MP, Bansal is eyeing a fourth consecutive term in office. His day starts with a padyatra in one of the colonies. The group walks through every lane, ensuring that there is no house left that is not touched. People carrying microphone raise slogans hailing Bansal and the party. Curious onlookers come out of their houses to see what the commotion is all about. Party loyalists and local leaders join the canvassers.
Along the way, Bansal greets some residents. While little can be heard amidst the noise, those accompanying him try to decipher the mood of the voters. Some complaints follow about the local problems or the need for better amenities. After covering the colony, the residents along with the party members gather for a meeting where some leaders and Bansal address the gathering.
After this, Bansal heads home where groups of people are scheduled to meet him. After the meetings end, it is time for the second round of campaigning which has to be wrapped up before lunch. Markets in two or three sectors are chosen where Bansal along with other party leaders meets the shopkeepers, starting from one end of the market to the other. At places where supporters of the party are present, Bansal is offered garlands. At others, tea and snacks are arranged.
Party leaders say that covering the markets is essential as it creates the "atmosphere'' and helps reach a wide section of urban voters. A break for lunch follows. Post-lunch, meetings are scheduled with small groups in different sectors. Some time, groups of industrialists or traders arrange a programme. In between a trip to the party office in Sector 35 is squeezed in to hold meetings.
The evenings are reserved for public meetings and rallies in villages. Every evening, at least two villages or colonies are covered. Bansal speaks on issues pertaining to development over the past 15 years in his tenure as local MP, the presence of "outsiders" in the election fray, and his promises for the future.
At places, questions are raised about the pending demands and people ask why these have not been fulfilled. Bansal says, "I have never promised people I will fetch them the moon and that rivers of honey and milk will flow in Chandigarh. I make realistic promises and assure that I will take these up at every level."
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You hit it on the head. In the U.S. the haves are those with the money, the power and a survival of the fittest ideology - Republican's - conservatives -right wing. They legislate control i.e. all the attempts, successful or not, to regulate the woman's body, keeping the woman subservient by paying her less just because she doesn't have a dick. The irony of it all is they use God and the Bible as the basis of their suppression when the oath they take is an oath to the Constitution WHICH SEPARATES CHURCH AND STATE.The powers that be with the have-not's have money and power as well but are a bit more realistic in understanding that while the rich and powerful take the wealth the poor still need to survive in a civil society. So, the liberals, or progressive as they are called today, have come up with social programs like welfare. The right complains about giving welfare to poor while they give their powerful corporations ungodly tax breaks and block attempts to cut off this corporate handout. The left gave the unemployed a program to compensate for hard times. The right fought against it. The left gave veterans benefits to better themselves with college education. The right fought tooth and nail against it calling it 'welfare'. I could go on and on and on. While the left ain't perfect...I'll side with those who stand with the less powerful. The only way to win against a survival of the fittest mentality is to do by the masses. Yes I can see how they keep the power and that's disgusting about women (I want the next President to be a Mexican descended, lesbian, handicapped aetheist, which sounds like real equality to me) as for the religious issue. Well once the British established that god is British (we have songs about this and the Queen is head of the Church and State) it became an establishment means of control but apart from lavender scented little old lades who formed sewing clubs or made naked pinup calenders we all stopped going to church regularly and made bingo halls out of them so they sort of lost that angle - must have really upset Henry VIII. They did only educate the masses so that they could operate the more sophisticated services that were coming in in the late 1800's but that was a double edged sword most of us can now read and apart from those who peruse The Sun are fairly well informed and have developed a sort of romantic cynic outlook. Therefore the in-house machinations of politicians are ignored we only get annoyed when they rattle sabres or have some crazy scheme going on like leaving Europe or ban fox hunting (Oscar Wilde expressed that issue very well).
The only thing that really matters is availability and enthusiasm.
Grant's not a bad blend but I really prefer a single malt.
Well if it was me there'd have to be a band there playing with a heavy downbeat and long sounding slides on trombone and the drummer favouring the tom toms.
Oh we must get together an expeditionary force to save the Egyptians I'm sure they'll have some weapons of mass destruction hidden somewhere let's be philanthropic about the pyramids and save them instead of oil it'll be a longer lasting legacy after all.
This sounds a great idea and now that it's summer and not Christmas which is when this seems to have happened you can try walking down the street like that - bound to get lots of offers. (And you've actually measured your dick too).
US politics seem a total mystery to me and sometimes somewhat contradictory as I get the impression the idea is freedom yet phrases like liberal, communist, socialist are bandied about as though they are some sort of disease and not just a point of view (one of my US friends tells me even the idea of a pension is considered very left wing). In the UK it's simple. There are the haves and the have nots and the haves keep trying to stop the have nots having any and the the have nots keep trying to get more and keep what they've got. Therefore we end up with an uneasy compromise between the two polarities. I'm with Samuel Johnson on this one only I would extend it to mean all of them.
Likes her music hard and heavy and I like her weakness too.
Come back Shirley Temple all is forgiven.
Oh for god's sake this is a site dedicated to sex I can't believe all the morality I'm seeing. Let's not be naive here.
The one where he starred opposite Marilyn Monroe.
If you want to try unusual beers The Czech Republic is the place to come to. There are many small breweries and some produce some very specialised brews. For example Pivovarsky Dum (House of Beer) in Prague makes beer from unusual recipes such as wheat, coffee, banana and cherry. If you want to view their site just type in pivovarsky dum Stepanska and it will bring it up. There is a translation flag too. Another good reason to try Czech beer is it's very cheap I can buy 6 beers in the supermarket for about 2 pounds.
Hi everyone,I'm a journalist looking for a woman to share her experiences of writing erotica! I'd love to speak to someone who will talk to me about how they got into it, why they do it and if it has affects their sex life.You would get paid for taking part in the piece and get to approve everything before it is printed.If you would be interested or have any questions please give me an email - firstname.lastname@example.com! Natasha x Why only women?
I would have thought the expression would have been spelt 'Mrs'. People do (in a way I find a bit sexist) say 'the Mrs'. Regarding the US/UK differences the online Lush US dictionary didn't even recognize 'spelt' as the past tense of the verb to to spell but logged it as a mistake. Also it may be interesting to note that US English is more archaic than the UK's as it has stayed similar in lots of ways such as pronounciation and spelling to the Elizabethan period.
I have to my regret heard that god awful record inflicted on the world by her father but have never heard of the woman or know what twerking is (is it some sort of digital equivalent to pinching a bottom?). Wow what a good guess I really didn't know what it meant but it looks like I was close.
When You'e In Love With A Beautiful Woman recorded by Dr Hook a real fun band who unlike a lot of current crappers or wrappers (what do they wrap bad taste maybe?) or whatever, never took themselves too seriously in fact they never even shot at the opposition even though one liked wearing cowboy hats and a rather piratical eye patch.
i'm curious. is England considered a desert island? because, if it is, all i really need is a clean pair of knickers and a weeks supply of gin and tonics. :) No England is not even an island and definitely not deserted but I'm sure it could accommodate your every want.
I have to my regret heard that god awful record inflicted on the world by her father but have never heard of the woman or know what twerking is (is it some sort of digital equivalent to pinching a bottom?).
If any of you fellow mid-life crisisers are considering buying a guitar, this scene from Stranger Than Fiction might help you choose... //www.youtube.com/embed/tfWXnLXYZvE Never ever ever buy a guitar as to how it looks only as to how it feels and sounds. If you can play in finger style an F shape bar on the 7th fret (B) and add notes easily with your little finger on the 1st and 2nd strings because the action is so good buy that one. I had a go on a Tacoma the other day and it looked awful but was a dream to play in fact I could do things on it that I can't do on other guitars even very good ones.
I can't see why you object to a threesome with Raving Rowinda my sexy blow up doll I know she's very cute and authentic looking but despite the built in orgasm scream and automatic lubrication she isn't real.
Get a taxi or campaign for a decent public transport system (which would be even better in lots of ways including good for your heart.). That reminds me of when I visited the US (which I thought was very interesting and impressive) I was on foot and asked a guy where some shops were and his directions included ''driving only 3 blocks''. He automatically assummed I was driving because I think that's what all people in the US seem to do - drive everywhere. So if you must then to quote an old UK government slogan (which unfortunately we aren't allowed to have personal arsenals to get rid of) Don't Drink and Drive.
There are no formulas of behaviour for this situation just get through it as best as you can the main thing is survive.
Do critics actually go and see kids movies where some guy wears a cloak and his underpants outside his tights?
Past tense.
A single red rose.
You know in the USA as late as the 1920's they used to circumsize girls try that for fun. Primitive rubbish too tribal for me and I have no problem with fucking for a long time without cuming (age has its compensations).
Let any sharp object near the centre of my universe You're joking right?
In a field, on a train, in a car, at work, - clothed - naked in an olive grove, on the beach and on a traffic roundabout.
Laziness. Once I've had an idea for a story - that's the main creative act already over so having to write it all out is the draggy thing. I once thought of a great idea as to why a lot of rock stars die young and it was this. Rock and Roll was thought up by the U.S.S.R. as a means of corrupting the west (anyone who thinks rock and roll didn't do just that has a short memory) Anyway the idea would be that every time some icon finds out that they are a Soviet puppet they get ''accidentally'' removed. :) Some people think I should still give that a go but it sounds like hard work. ''Hey Buddy what was that guy doing to the wing of the plane? I dunno Ritchie maybe just a last minute safety check wanna drag of this splif?''


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Windows 8 upgrade experience: #1
I've upgraded two machines to Windows 8
The first is my main working laptop:
- Windows 8 Enterprise can't do an in place upgrade of Windows 7 Ultimate. So had to re-install all my applications. Took the opportunity to upgrade to Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012
- Following installed and work:
- Adobe Digital Editions
- Camtasia
- Snaggit
- Live mail 2012
- Palm eReader
- Skype
- Magic Disk is no longer required because Windows 8 can mount .iso files in the file system. Right click an .iso file in File Explorer and Mount is the first choice on the context menu
- Windows defender now does Anti-Virus
The second machine was my Dell Duo:
- Installed windows 8 as an upgrade to Windows 7 Home premium
- Kindle for PCs doesn't work on Windows 8. Download the free Kindle app from the Microsoft store. Its not obvious where the downloaded books are stored
- The DUO is a hybrid netbook/tablet. The accelerometer stopped working post upgrade meaning the screen didn't rotate. Not good for a tablet. Dell don't appear to do an updated driver but a web search found the issue was fixable using the Samsung driver from http://www.samsung.com/global/windowspreview/
- Running as a tablet swipe & touch all seem to work OK
One draw back to the Kindle app is that it only seems able to access ebooks through the Amazon store. With Kindle for windows PC I could add books in from other sources. Stopping this is a backward step. Luckily I have other means of reading those ebooks
PowerShell v3 goodness
Downloaded and installed PowerShell v3 and its associated new operating system (Windows 8) from MSDN in the week.
One nice new cmdlet is Unblock-File.
Download a bunch of files from the Internet and you have to unblock them. Its now this easy
Get-ChildItem -Filter *.d* | Unblock-File
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You may have noticed that I mention WMI from time to time
Up to now WMI has been a Windows technology. Powerful but limited to Windows. WMI has taken a giant step into the big bad world with the creation of OMI – Open Management Infrastructure thats WMI for non-Windows systems
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Write-Host Wrong!
Many scripting languages require you explicitly write out to screen – VBScript was an example.
This leads to PowerShell that looks like this
Get-Service |
foreach {
Write-Host $_.Name, $_.Status
This is bad on so many levels.
Firstly you are doing too much work. Secondly you are emitting text not objects. Thirdly you are doing too much work.
Get-Service |
Format-Table Name, Status –AutoSize
gives a much better result and if you are working at the prompt can be aliased to
gsv | ft Name, Status –a
The last act of the pipeline is to pass the data to Out-Default which performs the screen writing. Write-Host also passes data to Out-Default which effectively terminates the pipeline.
You should always format the data for display as far into the processing as you possibly can. Once you have called a format cmdlet or Write-Host you have terminated the pipeline.
The best you will get is the text representation that would have been displayed on screen. The worst is garbage output.
So if you want to create a HTML report then
Get-Service |
Select Name, Status |
ConvertTo-Html |
Out-File test.htm
Invoke-Item test.htm
Stick with objects and let the pipeline do the work


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76 of 83 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The original "Blade"?
I know it sounds like a bunch of cliches but this book gripped me so much I couldn't put it down and read it in just a few hours. A sometimes bleak study of the human condition it is also engrossing, thought-provoking and moving. It is also one of the few "horror" novels out of hundreds I have read that have genuinely scared me.
Basically it is the story of Robert...
Published on 5 Oct. 2002 by David Caton
3.0 out of 5 stars Left me with even more questions...
For anyone that hasn't seen the film or read the book........the book is nothing like the film.......and the film is nothing like the book.. Normally, when a film is based on a book I love the book so much more. But not this time. I have to say that I'm liking the film more this time.
The book is good, don't get me wrong. I was scared in parts. However, it's...
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76 of 83 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The original "Blade"?,
David Caton (Westcliff on Sea, Essex England) - See all my reviews
I know it sounds like a bunch of cliches but this book gripped me so much I couldn't put it down and read it in just a few hours. A sometimes bleak study of the human condition it is also engrossing, thought-provoking and moving. It is also one of the few "horror" novels out of hundreds I have read that have genuinely scared me.
Basically it is the story of Robert Neville, the lone survivor of a plague that sends its victims into a coma, followed eventually by death and vampirism. By day Neville hunts sleeping plague victims and vampires and disposes of them in the traditional manner. By night he locks himself away while hordes of vampires attack his well-defended house. Eventually he seeks scientific explanations for the causes of vampirism and tries to find a cure. In that respect I think the story must have been an influence on the Blade comics and movies (just don't expect hi-tech weapons, martial arts and cool shades!!).
As Neville becomes more resigned to his situation, and gradually gets used to the nightly attacks of vampires on his well-defended house, so does the reader. The vampires become almost incidental and the writing focusses more on Neville's thoughts and preoccupations. Until, that is, Neville loses track of time and gets caught outside, miles from home at nightfall. It is a testament to Matheson's writing that at this point the thought of being in Neville's position and having to run the gauntlet of vampires waiting for him outside his only safe haven is truly terrifying!
The pseudo-scientific explanations for the characteristics of vampirism seem a little silly, especially the "body glue", but these are really incidental to the story, as is the futuristic 1970's setting, and you shouldn't let these put you off.
I would recommend this book to anyone.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Its all about the people,
C. Oflaherty "llywco" (UK) - See all my reviews
I bought this because it was number two in the masterworks series, which has been a goldmine of excellent science fiction: Gateway, Forever War etc.
I was a little dubious about reading a vampire book. I went through a bit of a phase as a teenager, and it had all been a bit cheesy and romanticised, more about the costumes than horror. I also read Dracula many years ago and was decidedly underwhelmed. This, was however, unexpectedly excellent.
Reading this novel is a little like being locked inside the main characters small shuttered house, with occasional forays into the sunlit world outside. This is because at first the only knowledge of the world you have is through his fear, and his hatred of the vampires; but gradually this is added to by his recollections of the past, of his realisations about the world he is now living in. This mirroring between the reader's knowledge and the main character's world is an excellent method of creating empathy with a character with whom you are not always meant to agree, but are at least expected to comprehend his choices.
The vampires of this world are not a mythical, and mysterious creation, but a scientific fact and undeniable truth in John Neville's world. This makes them both more frightening and more sympathetic, because regardless of their present situation and their needs they were once people. The question the book ultimately poses is what is it that makes us human?
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Warrior of the wasteland,
I hadn't heard of Richard Matheson's post-apocalyptic novella until the film adaptation came out. After seeing that somewhat messy movie, I was inspired to seek out the source novel. Now, I think it's always better to watch a film version of a novel first, as it's usually less frustrating; the book is dark, eerie and ultimately harrowing, and I was gripped by Matheson's prose and couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. I would definitely recommend this novella to Sci-Fi/Fantasy fans and to those who simply like to read quality fiction. This edition is a reasonable price on here too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I AM IMPRESSED,
For me, the most engaging aspect of Matheson's 1954 I AM LEGEND is it's merging of ancient vampire folklore with a modern setting. Matheson here, was perhaps one of the first writers to pluck these creatures from their traditional castles or Transylvanian mountains and drop them into present day towns and cities.
We still have garlic and stakes through the heart and we still have bloodthirsty ghouls - back from the grave - who dare only come out at night.......but here in modern times they are given a scientific evaluation as Earth's sole survivor of a plague attempts to study and examine the vampirism as a disease in the hope of developing an remedy for the condition.
Our hero is Robert Neville, a scientist whose team co-develop a serum to combat a mysterious and deadly plague that quickly engulfs society. Neville has self-tested the serum but before it has been mass-produced, both the serum and it's formula are lost in an air crash and the plague quickly spreads the land, with those infected appearing to experience a return from the dead and a craving for blood. The creatures are vulnerable to daylight and shuffle around in hordes, occasionally feeding on each other if fresh blood cannot be found. A large group of these ghouls know where Neville lives and on a nightly basis descend upon his barricaded home in an attempt to sieze him for their bloodlust.
By day, Neville roams the empty streets and neighbourhoods armed with stakes and garlic in an attempt to seek out the hiding places of these creatures and destroy them while they are docile. Matheson places us in the thoughts of his protagonist almost throughout his entire story and we become very acquainted with Neville through his hopes, fears, frustration and anger. The empty neighbourhoods and city, the desolated streets, shops and homes are described in a fashion that brings a stark melancholy and sense of global tragedy to the entire affair.
In offering but one character to follow, Matheson expertly plunges us into the lost and lonely universe that has become Robert Neville's world. He must survive......he must overcome.........and he must destroy as many of his tormentors as daylight will allow him. These extremes are counterbalanced by the mundane day to day things that Neville must also continue to do: the cooking, the cleaning, the trips out for supplies and provisions. Simple things like avoiding toothache and injury in the absence of medical assistance are also brought up and made as vital as the need to hunt the enemy.
In doing this, Matheson drags an extraordinary scenario into an identifiably ordinary and everyday realm and gives the story a realistic vitality that it's theme by all accounts has little right to enjoy. Though the book works well as a Vampire story, I personally like to view I AM LEGEND not literally as a tale of such creatures but that of a world catastrophe, where an unknown virus has reduced it's infected to a death-like state and left them with terrible cravings beyond their control. In this format, it is a tale far more credible than yet another of the legendary and much-popularized creatures of the night.
It is credit to Matheson however, that his story allows one to subscribe to either approach.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A timeless masterpiece,
I Am Legend is my first venture into the SF Masterworks series, and is amongst my first foray into sci-fi. I felt compelled to read this as I love the movie, but I'd heard that the book is very different to the (underrated) Will Smith vehicle. I admit I wasn't really expecting much, I mean come on...this was written in 1954 right?
Wow, how wrong was I! I found the strangest thing reading I am Legend. Aside from some clearly dated references and "old fashioned" internal dialogue, this really could have been written last week. The writing has a quality that seems to transcend time, and within a few pages I'd forgotten that this is over 60 years old. Matheson's narrative is ruthlessly efficient and taut, and it feels as if not a single word is wasted. And even after all these years I got a sense of the hopelessness, the struggle of the main character and the absolute solitude that he has to deal with day after day after day.
It's this element, and the internal thought processes which are so effectively conveyed, that makes I Am Legend so absolutely compelling. By turns desperate, depressing, clever and uplifting, it's the definition of a writing masterclass. Even more of a revelation for me, though, was the story. It's completely different to the movie (regardless of which cut you watch), and I'm sitting here baffled as to why they changed it so completely for the screen. Whilst both good in their own right, the book is, in my opinion, far superior. And that ending! Wow.
I Am Legend isn't really sci-fi in the traditional sense but more of a thriller/horror. And even in 2012, it remains a relevant and superb piece of literature. If you've not read it, I urge you to do so. Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars "The last man on Earth is not alone",
Tim (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
After reading the great reviews about this and being told time and again that it is nothing like the film, I was pleased to see that they are accurate. This is a tremendous book! a perfect blend of psychological horror and sci-fi and even after nearly 60 years it does not feel aged at all. It throws you completely into the mind and life of Robert Neville and provides genuine scares and delightful twists.
I found it very refreshing reading an old fashioned vampire novel, unlike the vampires depicted today that are near invincible, Matheson takes it back to their roots of garlic and cross-fearing. They still provide a very real threat and this is excellently portrayed through Neville's fear of them and being out after dark. I also appreciated the science that Matheson goes into to explain the vampires existence and weaknesses. It is all too easy to in sci-fi to leave out explanations of the supernatural, the science explored here grounds the novel in reality.
So much is explored in the relative short novel, Neville's coping of his day-to-day monotony and isolation, the loss of his friends and family, a brief glimpse at the beginning of the plague and the chaos that followed and much more.
A fantastic classic of the genre.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars It is Legend,
Kevin O'Brien "cheeky monkey" (Liverpool) - See all my reviews
I first read this story about ten years ago and again recently - it loses non of its atmosphere the second time round.
Robert Neville is the only non-infected person left after a plague hits the world. He forages by day and holes up in his fortified house when darkness threatens. With the night comes the infected, calling for him to come out. I found his relationship with Ben Cortman, his friend in life but enemy in death to be amusing.
The story is never action packed however the scenes written are well thought out and emotional. For me the scene about the dog was tense, enjoyable and eventually very sad.
It touches on all human emotions and comes across as being very realistic.
The story was written in the fifties and set in the seventies and does not resemble the movie, I Am Legend.
Worth the money, worth a read and most definitely thought provoking.
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Something to Sink Your teeth Into,
Steven Moses - See all my reviews
The Millenennium SF series is a bit of mixed bag of so called 'classic' and seminal sci-fi of the 20th century. 'I Am Legend' rightly deserves it's place in that list but not necessarily as a sci-fi novel. But it's a bit of a curate's egg. In fact it's not even a horror novel per se. There's a blend of sci-fi, post-apocalyptical musings ( more so in the movie based loosely on the book), some horror of course. But this novella is more a psychological examination of what it's like to be the last man alive. Matheson is an expert at leading us into the mind of a man without the companionship of his fellows. I won't spoil the plot as there are some brilliant and unexpected twists but the chapters concerned with Neville's discovery of a dog, company he has craved for for three years, is stunning and I defy anyone not to be moved to tears. I love the film, which is why I bought the book initially, but after reading it I'm afraid Heston et al missed out on a better adaptation. Near perfect.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Book,
This is a vampire tale although it isn't along the lines of the classic story.
It starts suddenly, you're thrown into the thick if it, wondering how and why what happened had happened. You're drawn into the world of Robert Neville, intrigued by his survival routines and search for knowledge of the way the world now is.
I found myself being drawn into his feeling of solitary and the helplessness that frequently befalls Neville.
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This review is from: Eller: Complete Piano Music Vol. 3 [Sten Lassmann] [Toccata Classics: TOCC 0161] (Audio CD)
As the foremost Estonian composer of his era, Heino Eller (1887-1970) is revered in his country. To those of us from elsewhere he is probably best known as the teacher of Arvo Pärt, the current leading light of Estonian music. Thanks to critic turned music entrepreneur Martin Anderson, the founder of Toccata Classics, we are now getting a slew of recordings of music from the Baltic states and discovering some laudable works. This is the third in a series of CDs -- there will be eight -- of Eller's complete works for piano, all played by Estonian pianist Sten Lassmann, an artist in his early thirties.
On this disc are works from what are roughly Eller's early, middle and late periods, including Three Studies (1917-1919), Five Préludes (1929-1930), Ten Lyric Pieces (1942-1943) and his Fourth Piano Sonata (1957-1958).
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The Ten Lyric Pieces, formally inspired by Grieg's Lyric Pieces, are mostly somber, even melancholy, pieces written in the period immediately after Eller's Jewish first wife was taken by the SS and a few months later executed. The music here is, in the main, gripping, heart-rending. Interestingly there is a seemingly inappropriate mazurka-like piece, No. 8, which however is secretly apt as a Chopin mazurka was one of the last pieces Eller heard his wife, a pianist, play. The last, and longest, Lyric Piece is a set of variations ending in a quadruple fugue.
The early Three Studies are rather more lyrical than the Lyrical Pieces, sounding to some extent like Grieg or Christian Sinding. Most effective is the third one, in G Flat Major, which has ceaseless sixteenth notes throughout. The second study, also in G Flat, is brief and somewhat jocular. The first, in A Flat Major, is na�vely pastoral, describing dawn with the rising of a brilliant sun.
The Five Préludes are considerably more spare than the Studies, even cryptic in style. Almost diffident, only one of them even has a key signature or easily discernible pulse. There is an underlying angst in all of them.
The Piano Sonata No. 4, Eller's last, was written in the late 1950s after the composer had gone through the 'Social Realism', 'anti-Formalist' phase in Soviet music during which he had to conform to cultural czar Andrei Zhdanov's edicts about what kind of music was allowed. Modern-sounding without being atonal, the three-movement sonata is somewhat neoclassic, with a first movement in modified sonata-allegro form. The second movement is contemplative, musing, often lyrical. It leads without pause into the vivo finale, a rondo whose themes are graceful, lilting, and light-hearted until sforzando chordal passages lead to a dramatic coda on a pedal point, what the booklet writer, the pianist Sten Lassmann, calls a 'tragic outcry'.
Many of the pieces here are receiving their first recordings. Sten Lassmann is a fine pianist doing a major service to the memory of a composer whose music deserves to be heard.
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Great review ... the back of the disc claims that this is one of a series of eight discs, not seven though. Do you know different? Not a criticism, just interested ...
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No. It was my mistake. Thanks for catching it. I'll change it to eight in my review.
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