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Finished I Am Legend by Richard Matheson for the A-Z Challenge (and as part of my 30 by 30 challenge).
This book is the basis for the Will Smith movie of the same name. I haven't seen it, but I have DVRed it and hope to watch it at some point over the next couple days.
In this book, Robert Neville is pretty sure he's the last person alive. Vampires have taken over his town, and he devotes the daytime to (a) making sure his house is still a fortress, (b) foraging for food and books [library books on biology and blood so he can understand exactly what's going on] and (c) killing as many vampires as he can find.
If you like books that are scary (because parts of this are incredibly scary) and love anything related to science, you will adore this book. If you do not like science, proceed with caution. I do not like science AT ALL, and I still enjoyed it but it was very dry in parts.
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(Richard Matheson is, btw, one of my favorite authors ever ... and wrote lots of things you may have liked without knowing they were him - like the Gremlins on the wings Twilight Zone.)
I haven't read that, but I saw the movie--it was the basis for Somewhere in Time, right?
I'm reading Hell House next; I got an awesome book that has both.
I actually thought of you when I was reading all the science stuff--I'm glad you've read it.
I thought, "I bet Steve Betz knows what this means without having to re-read it multiple times."
There may have been some grumbling involved. :)
And also the movie from it.
(I think there was a remake, not the remake, but the earlier one).
Yes, the movie is a pretty fair take on the book.
But still love the book more.
A Shirley Jackson short story was the basis for the film The Haunting of Hill House.
The first version of the Haunting of Hill House (1963) is in black and white, and has Clare Bloom.
It is a lovely, lovely, scary film.
It was remade as The Haunting (1999), which is rather second-rate.
Reel Videos still has a tape of the 1963 movie, but I don't think it is out on DVD yet, sigh.
The Legend of Hell House (1973) is s different story, by Matheson.
Pretty scary too.