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I Am Legend

Auteur(s): Richard Matheson
Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
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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.

©1954 Richard Matheson. © renewed 1982 by Richard Matheson (P)2007 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classiques Fantastique Fiction Horreur Post-apocalyptique Science-fiction Effrayant Paranormal Dystopique Survie Zombie
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Ce que les critiques en disent

“The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula.”

(Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times bestselling author)

“One of the ten all-time best novels of vampirism.”

(Fangoria)

“[A] sink-your-teeth-in vampire masterpiece. It will change the way you look at yourself and the amalgam of the world around you right now…If ever a book was made to read in one sitting, this complex horror novel is it.”

(SFsite.com)

“The incomparable talents of Robertson Dean shine as he becomes Neville, and the listener can only follow his lead ever deeper into this nightmare world. Dean has a unique voice and manages to make the storytelling a personal experience. We are there with him, panicking one minute, sighing with relief the next, aching with intolerable loneliness, then facing terrifying clashes with the vampires. This is one of those magical audiobooks that you simply have to enjoy in one session, so be sure to set aside the time.”

(AudioFile)

“In a tale that plays with the slippery slope of sanity, Dean makes the perfect choice for a narrator. His powerful performance proves chilling and haunting. As Neville teeters on the edge of sanity, Dean manipulates his tone, speed, emphasis and projection accordingly, making listeners tremble with his narration.”

(Publishers Weekly (starred audio review))
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I never tire of reading or listening to this story. One of my favorite authors.

great story

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Forget everything you think you know from the movie adaptations. This is a much more intimate and psychologically unsettling story. Matheson takes isolation and turns it into the real monster. It's short, bleak, intelligent, and manages to make you question who the actual “monster” is.

Forget the Movie. Read This Instead.

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I love spec fiction and this did not disappoint. Dark, honest, and tense. Vampires done with science. A lone man pulling a dystopic Robinson Crusoe. Compelling and hard to put down.

100x better than the movie

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Prepare to be trolled. It starts off so slow, and the narrator so sleepy, you will have to fight against giving up on it. But then it picks up and becomes impossible to put down. Then it abruptly ends giving the listener zero satisfaction in any way shape or form. I want to believe there was some poetic reason for the ending like sopranos...but I find myself settling on the author just being lazy, and giving up half way. Its 5 hours. Is it worth the credit? Probably not.

Purposely disappointing and lazy

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I was disappointed with this story. The performance was great and I am a fan of the genre. Yes I made the mistake of watching the movie years ago but only vaguely remembered how it ended. I enjoyed the journey of the story and the performance but when I reached the end it was so unsatisfying. It is a dark and lonely story, You have to take a lot for granted; his ability to fix the cars, maintain a generator to run a freezer etc. Anyone who has run a generator during a long power outage would recognize that as a monumental feat., Why had stuff not expired?, How was he able to consistently find and access stabilized gas. I did not understand his limited stockpile and use of available firearms. His choice to stay where he was for so long. Despite all that, I was drawn into Neville's world and felt for his loss. He should have been dead many times over but he was a survivor deliberately or not. The ending was (for me anyway) not consistent with the story. Perhaps it was inevitable but so unsatisfying. That said I want to go through it again to see what I may have missed and perhaps that will change how I feel about the story. Great performance.

Wanted to like it more!

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