![]() ![]() This is truly well done and what makes the book periodically powerful. What this book depicts is what happens when the world moves on, and someone is left behind. ![]() They are entirely at odds, and whereas the infected have each other, Neville has no one. Yet he can’t hang out with them or converse logically with them. ![]() He is surrounded by those infected with the virus. Depicting the effects of painful ostracism and loneliness on a person’s psyche. That is the best word to describe the book, and it is also what Matheson excels at. I was simply expecting more from such an influential book.Ĭlaustrophobic. It’s difficult to read a highly influential scifi book that inspired both the trend of writing of a worldwide pandemic and the original Night of the Living Dead and find that you actually are a bit unimpressed by it. Will anything ever save him from this monotonous existence? Every night he curls up in sound-proofed home drinking whiskey and listening to records. Every day he goes out on his quest to simply kill the vampires while they sleep. Robert Neville might, quite possibly, be the only uninfected left. A worldwide virus pandemic has turned most of the world’s population into vampires–both alive and undead. ![]()
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