I Am Legend

160 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 1999

ISBN:
978-1-85798-809-3
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3 stars (2 reviews)

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Review of 'I Am Legend and Other Stories' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

The title novel, I Am Legend, is great; I would easily give it four stars, and perhaps even five. I found the short stories appended to the novel to run the spectrum between decent and terrible. They get better as they go. A few rely on complete sexism to invoke any feeling or horror ("Witch War") and some are so concerned with Hemingway-like objectivity that they are honestly inexplicable ("Buried Talents"). The last three or four stories are good, though I personally am led to believe Matheson was a master of novel writing, and not so much at short story writing.