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Title: 5 Stars for the title Story - 4 stars over all
Review: What a gripping, amazingly well written story!I am Legend, is by far the best vampire story of all time. Dracula might win in name recognition, Ann Rice's popularized vampires, they all have a color of fantasy to the story. Matheson's story not only twists the story even darker by focusing on the non-vampire Neville, but sets the story in a realistic, modern (even though it was written in the 1950s!) backdrop. The effect, is that the vampires become a reality to the reader.It reads much like a diary of a shipwrecked sailor on a remote island - a Robinson Crusoe - following Neville's experiences, triumphs, isolation, and humanity. Matheson addresses quesions like what does it mean to be "normal" or "human", and Neville keeps wondering why it is that he fights to live on all by himself, against all odds.The other short stories in this book are delightfully (and disturbingly) well written, but "I am Legend" is by far the greatest.
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