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I liked this, quite a lot actually. Once I stopped thinking of it being in any way linked to the Will Smith movie (which I also liked but which is just a completely different story, really) I could just sink into it. The fight in Robert Neville and the futility of it all was so compelling to me. So i got 23% into this book and i simply cannot take another page of this. Stupid, alcoholic, smoking, crap eating, sad, miserable idiot getting chased by lots of vampires. Woohoo! Yes folks, another dull and boring vampire story, only difference from the norm is that this one is post-apocalyptic as the vampires have wiped out all humans apart from this one pathetic, sad alcoholic. Seriously, if you had the daylight hours of every day to do whatever you want, go wherever you want, you have the whole world and its contents at your disposal before the vampires came out at night to hunt and all you could think to do was live like this sad twat because you're a pathetic, miserable alcoholic, then you may as well just throw yourself into the vampire's grasp and get it over with. Stop torturing yourself, and most of all, stop torturing us poor readers who have large "To Read" piles to get through. I have no idea about the rest of the book, but the first quarter of it has no sci-fi whatsoever in it. How this has managed to get itself into "SF Masterworks" is quite beyond me. I suppose there always has to be the bottom of pile, hopefully this is it because i'm going to despair if there are any worse books than this in the series. Deleted. I get tired of the special-effects driven horror movies, all motion and no plot. Whatever happened to the stories where I felt a genuine sense of dread, and anticipation? Did they all disappear after Richard Matheson wrote his novella? If you are wondering where all the zombie/vampire motifs originated from, you're looking at it. It's unsettling thinking about being surrounded by people - perhaps dead but still very much active - who are looking to you for their next meal. It's about being very lonely, after locking all the toxic people out of your life. Is it worth the fight to stay alive, if you are doomed to be alone? The plot moves quickly and it's a page-turner. No slow spots. Try not to read it on a lonely winter night at your cottage, like I did. High 3.
Matheson maakt op een briljant-ingenieuze wijze gebruik van de Vampiermythe voor Essef doeleinden Glavni junak romana, Robert Nevil, poslednji je čovek u svetu zaraženom vampirizmom. Zabarikadiran u svom domu, on svake noći vodi bitku da preživi do svitanja, pri čemu mu neprijatelji nisu samo krvožedni stvorovi napolju, nego i sopstveni nagoni, ludilo koje vreba i uspomene na lepšu prošlost. Sudbinu Roberta Nevila na kraju zapečatiće jedna žena čija će ga izdaja suočiti sa istinom da se shvatanje normalnosti preokrenulo i da je sada sam na njenoj drugoj strani. Na onoj strani na kojoj se stupa u legendu. Prvenstvena tema Metisonovog dela je „opasna različitost”. Njegovi vampiri su sivi i istovetni, simbol vladavine populizma, dok je Nevil večiti pojedinac u borbi protiv neprijateljskih sila prirode i društva. Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio SF (53) — 7 more Kalla Kårar (31) Midnattsgrøsseren (30) Présence du futur (10) Science Fiction Book Club (3684) SF Masterworks (2) Is contained inHas the adaptationInspiredAwardsNotable Lists
An acclaimed SF novel about vampires becomes a stunning new movie starring Will Smith. The last man on earth is not alone . . . Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this? No library descriptions found.
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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I have a very strong feeling that this is one of those books that will look as if the backstory, and some additional expounding of details would make it better, but making the book more realistic, so to speak, would be just pointless filler getting in way of the plot.
Would recommend wholeheartedly. (