I start the review of this book with a question: Have you seen the movie it is based? If the answer is yes, forget it all, because it seems anything like what Richard Matheson wrote . The film, starring Will Smith and premiered in 2007, is one of my favorite and after seeing it several times, I am still able to mourn and get nervous. I do not know why, but I love it. The book, published in 1954, is no better or worse, simply different and I liked so very much like its counterpart in the big screen. It was a great surprise because when I started reading it I was afraid to see what was so different and yet the few words I was totally excited and engaged with the story. Has long had several books of Richard Matheson around for home, some on paper and other digital, but this was the first and not the last. I Am Legend takes place between 1976 and 1979 in a post-apocalyptic world. The absolute leader is Robert Neville, the sole human survivor, apparently of a pandemic that has wiped out humanity. But it is the only creature on the face of the Earth, because in reality, death became infected and show the behavior and characteristics of vampires. Neville, who has lost his entire family during infection, is entrenched in his house at night lessening the harassment of vampires who are crowded out with classical music at full volume, while during the day is to seek an explanation for the plague that covers the planet and solutions to end it. But this isolation makes Neville takes refuge in alcohol and do not stop thinking about his wife and daughter dead. His sanity hangs by a thread and is obsessed with the idea of \u200b\u200bfinding another survivor. It is a lonely and desperate man, but wanting to live without even knowing why.
course, try to put myself in the place of Robert Neville has been devastating and has made me wonder how I would take this situation. Surely worse than him. The book is much deeper than the film because we know what's in Neville's mind at every moment, we can know and feel his despair and powerlessness raw. It is a book about vampires, but they just appear. The prose is agile but rich and full of emotions, at least what he has conveyed to me. It's one of those novels that you should experience and I recommend without hesitation. I can say little more because I will not reveal anything subtracting emotion or who have not read (and I repeat it has nothing to do with the movie almost). And those who have read: What do you think? TECHNICAL
Read: February 23 to March 1, 2011
Original title: I am legend
Format: Digital
Pages: 73
CHALLENGES
This book helps me to Books Challenge 2011 Colors (red), 50 Books Challenge 2011 (van 7) and The Challenge in Chemistry 2011 (Element: Argon - Representation: Ar - My use of the challenge: P3). BBF
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