![]() ![]() I finished out the other stories and they were pretty good. ![]() It’s all in here, it all feels very real, and I am very impressed. There’s even one scene that just broke my heart. ![]() Then there’s the rage, despair, curiosity, really the whole gamut of emotions that you would feel in that position. The vampires were scary at first, and then they just sort of become background noise. I experienced all of his emotions with him. Neville’s reactions felt very real to me. How would you deal with that? Would you give up? Would you keep fighting? Would you start searching for others? Would you search for the reason behind the horror that has become your life? Matheson explores all of these avenues and more. ![]() It was more about the absolute aloneness that Neville experiences. There are the vampires, and there are a couple of intense scenes with them, but that wasn’t what made the book scary to me. I would definitely call it a horror book, but not exactly for the reason that I expected. I’ve seen bits of the Will Smith movie (and what I’ve seen has very little in common with the book), I’ve read my friends’ reviews, but it’s still something that I think you have to experience for yourself to understand. It somehow wasn’t exactly what I expected, and I mean that in a good way. I’ve been doing a lot of Halloween-related books this month, so I decided to give it a try. Several GR friends have read this and raved about it recently. ![]()
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