: I Am Legend
Author: Richard Matheson
This is the book the movie was based on; I listened to the audiobook edition while traveling. It’s very different: the people are vampires, not mutants, and the story is hardly even similar, though there are occasional overlaps. For instance, a dog does die in the book, but it’s not the man’s only friend like in the movie, and the woman he meets has a different role and no kid. In some ways I prefer the movie version as the vampire thing seems sort of cheesy and unrealistic. (A plague that causes vampirism? Please.) But the book’s interesting and less gimmicky in plot than the movie.
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