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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  john257hopper | Nov 25, 2009 |  This book is very good. It starts out with Robert Neville has to live with garlic everywhere and keep his house locked. When it becomes night all of the vampires come out. Robert tries to forget about the death of his wife while hunting his neighbor. He is the major character and is static. He is an protagonist and is round. (  ) Danny_Walker | Nov 19, 2009 | Matheson is the master of post-apocalyptic fiction. The ultimate enemy of the last man on Earth is not the zombie-like vampires he faces nightly, but his own shattered psyche. And of course, the twist ending will leave you reeling. ( ) SendersName | Nov 11, 2009 | This book is as similar to the movie of the same name (with Will Smith) as The DaVinci Code book was to its movie (in other words, not at all). The book is much darker, much more dated (obvious that it was written in the 50s), and much more "internal". About half the book is a discovery of the main character's mental breakdown. i.e. He spends so much time alone that his own humanity is questionable. There is a lot of Robert Neville talking to himself or reading books out loud (so the reader will be able to follow the "science")... I guess since he's the last human left, it's not like the story could be told through dialogue so this is the only other way. There is not nearly enough action to keep the story interesting; and it's so hard to relate to Neville that it's not really a very interesting "character study" either... not sure if this is because he's very "set in his ways" or because it is dated and/or sexist or something... I can't put my finger on why, but the story is just too dry. (  ) crazybatcow | Nov 7, 2009 | Very disappointing. For me, reading this book was a similar to listening to someone like Buddy Holly. Interesting mostly as a precursor to the later works that it influenced. (  ) gabebaker | Oct 28, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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This edition also contains a collection of macabre short stories written over a period of nearly 4 decades in the author's career. Some of them have very similar themes (haunting, personal possession, funeral parlours) and a couple of them fell flat for me. The best of these was probably Prey, where the spirit of a killer African doll attacks and then takes over a woman. (