I Am Legend
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I Am Legend
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Narrated by:
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Robertson Dean
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By:
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Richard Matheson
About this listen
The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.
In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville’s blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?
Richard Matheson’s chilling tale is a white-knuckle ride into a world of darkness and terror.
This title is part of our Vampire Collection, a selection of our favourite dark listens.©1954, 1982 by Richard Matheson (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
"The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula." (Dean Koontz)
"I think the author who influenced me most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me." (Stephen King)
The book combines a gruesome picture of a world in decay with the character study of a man who travels to the edge of madness in adapting to his new world. An intelligent book which is a (or even the) classic of it's genre, not least because of the well-reasoned and fantastic ending.
Superbly read and gripping story
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What did you like best about I Am Legend? What did you like least?
The narrators voice is really really really irritating. He tried to make it dramatic and maybe if his voice wasn't horrible it would have worked, but it was so it didn't.The story itself is great, but for a change not as good as the film, still worth a listen though if you can get over the narrators voice
Would you be willing to try another one of Robertson Dean’s performances?
NoIf this book were a film would you go see it?
I didI almost couldn't finish listening to this book
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A refreshing take on the vampire issue, instead of another love story this book pokes an attempt at the science behind it which is fascinating to anyone fed up of the same vampire story line.
It is both gruesome and captivating and though I have never seen the film version I would (as always) recommend you give this a listen first.
Additionally the narration is remarkably fitting for the tale
Brilliant
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the narration for the audiobook was sublime, keeping me hooked all the way through.
Any misgivings I have from the book can be answered by its age, it's so old that every idea in this book has been used by the cinematic community over the years, making the ideas seem old and unoriginal when actually they are all original.
One point of warning - the book is nothing like the film in almost every way. They didn't use anything but the name and the premise for the movie. For me that's a good thing but for others maybe not so, the book (being old As F) can leave some people impatient and wanting more.
Kicked off every modern zombie movie
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legend!!!
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