I am legend

Thanks to the blockbuster film with Will Smith or even just the back cover you will know that this story is about vampires. However, I think this is a great injustice as it takes some of the gravitas out of the first few pages. Richard Matheson cleverly builds the world around Neville, held up in his house just to stay alive. Also, to label the novel as a vampire story is short sighted as it was the inspiration to the zombie genre. Yet to think of this as purely a piece of horror fiction is wrong. With it written from a third person perspective a modicom of distance is given between the reader and Neville yet you are pulled through his mental ups and downs. With the collapse of the society around him, morals become just an ignorable nagging, left at the way side in order to survive.
This book is nothing like the film, as I mentioned earlier I think it even detracts from it. Thus, I would urge you to read it and if I had my way people would read this before any other zombie or recent vampire novels, having read Bram Stoker's Dracula is always a must.
So, after having given away the threat that befalls Neville to any of you who didn't know already I bid you goodbye and good reading.
Ed