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title = "I Am Legend - Richard Matheson"
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date = 2014-05-20
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updated = 2021-02-12
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"published:1954"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940649-i-am-legend):
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Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every
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other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are
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hungry for Neville's blood.
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By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of
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civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the
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dawn.
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{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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Sadly, a lot of people may be driven away from the book due the movie -- which
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follows a very simple plot line.
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But the book does not have a simple plot line. It is complex, twisting and its
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purpose only shows in the very last line. In that line, the whole story
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finally clicks; all plots and twists, all descriptions and names, everything
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clicks. And you stay there, suddenly hit by its plot like a brick hitting you
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in the side of your face.
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