[re-post from my old blog]

I got this one at the same time as I got [b:The Golden Compass|119322|The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)|Philip Pullman|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510AEGjZ9yL.SL75.jpg|1536771] from the library, so I went on a bit of a movie magic binge. I bought this one at the local drug store, so it featured Will Smith on the cover. I wasn't aware of it at the time, but it turns out that I Am Legend is actually a novella, and so the rest of the book is filled with about a dozen more short stories of his (some of them are only a couple of pages!)

I enjoyed the beginning of the story, as man against monsters, but gradually the main character became annoying. He did a lot of whining. It would occasionally pick up steam when he'd go face to face again, but then peter out in some long diatribe against life - not very heroic. Then things change radically on him and it all ends rather abruptly and, I have to be honest here, confusingly. I'm not really sure what the heck was going on at the end, but I doubt the movie ends the same way! I also found the quaint anachronisms (like a push button starter on the car) strangely irritating. Oh well, it was a short ride anyway.