The book I Am Legend is a short story collection, of which the story "I Am Legend" is the longest and best. I borrowed the book from a family member on Thanksgiving 2007, a couple weeks before the movie premiered. I did not read all of the other stories, but the ones I did read were pretty good.

I actually liked the movie, but think that the book was much better. The most prominent difference is the ending, which is one of the best I have ever read: The two runners up that come to mind are Amory Blaine's statement of "I know myself, but that is all" at the end of [b:This Side of Paradise|46165|This Side Of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170314430s/46165.jpg|2520849] and the haunting description of the shark at the end of [b:A Canticle for Leibowitz|164154|A Canticle for Leibowitz|Walter M. Miller Jr.|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172331601s/164154.jpg|250975].

I won't go into the details of the story, but as the predecessor to many of the other vampire and zombie stories and films I have come to enjoy, I have to say I was greatly impressed and pleasantly surprised by this story.