![]() I Am Legend is not a huge book, based on length alone, but the weight and gravitas of this story goes beyond any measure. Well friends, since I have mentioned this book so many times in my book tags over the past few weeks, I decided to finally post a review for you guys. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.” Yet others don't care, they exist solely as a vehicle for horror and gore.Įverything considered, I Am Legend creates its own new creature that merely borrow from vampires.“He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. Other movies make vampires/zombies more clearly magical (remake of Dawn of the Dead). why haven't they all starved? If they are just feeding off what food is left in grocery stores and the like, why aren't they fighting each other over it (or if peaceful, cooperating with Will Smith)? but they aren't eating Michael Phelps' 10,000 calorie diets (that we can see). what are they feeding on? Stronger and faster than the best athletes. Though they do not have any obvious magical powers, they seem to have much more energy than can be accounted for. In the modern movie, they are some sort of mutant or persons afflicted with a chronic condition. ![]() None of their traits or abilities need to be explained by physics. These are creatures that drink blood, kill and convert the living to what they are, can't abide the light of day, and can't easily be destroyed. There aren't many variants either, almost all of them are what you and I would recognize as vampires. In the earliest stories of the undead, they were purely creatures of magic.
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