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I Am Legend
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Richard Matheson is The New York Timesbestselling author of Hell House, Other Kingdoms, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It... , and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels, Matheson wrote screenplays, and he wrote for several Twilight Zone episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story. He was born in New Jersey and raisedin Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. He lives in Calabasas, California.
Richard Matheson is the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come . A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. He lives in Calabasas, California.
PART ONE: January 1976 CHAPTER ONE On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. If he had been more analytical, he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival; but he still used the lifetime habit of judging nightfall by the sky, and on cloudy days that method didn't work. That was why he chose to stay near the house on those days. He walked around the house in the dull gray of afternoon, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, trailing threadlike smoke over his shoulder. He checked each window to see if any of the boards had been loosened. After violent attacks, the planks were often split or partially pried off, and he had to replace them completely; a job he hated. Today only one plank was loose. Isn't that amazing? he thought. In the back yard he checked the hothouse and the water tank. Sometimes the structure around the tank might be weakened or its rain catchers bent or broken off. Sometimes they would lob rocks over the high fence around the hothouse, and occasionally they would tear through the overhead net and he'd have to replace panes. Both the tank and the hothouse were undamaged today. He went to the house for a hammer and nails. As he pushed open the front door, he looked at the distorted reflection of himself in the cracked mirror he'd fastened to the door a month ago. In a few days, jagged pieces of the silver-backed glass would start to fall off. Let 'em fall, he thought. It was the last damned mirror he'd put there; it wasn't worth it. He'd put garlic there instead. Garlic always worked. He passed slowly through the dim silence of the living room, turned left into the small hallway, and left again into his bedroom. Once the room had been warmly decorated, but that was in another time. Now it was a room entirely functional, and since Neville's bed and bureau took up so little space, he had converted one side of the room into a shop. A long bench covered almost an entire wall, on its hardwood top a heavy band saw, a wood lathe, an emery wheel, and a vise. Above it, on the wall, were haphazard racks of the tools that Robert Neville used. He took a hammer from the bench and picked out a few nails from one of the disordered bins. Then he went back outside and nailed the plank fast to the shutter. The unused nails he threw into the rubble next door. For a while he stood on the front lawn looking up and down the silent length of Cimarron Street. He was a tall man, thirty-six, born of English-German stock, his features undistinguished except for the long, determined mouth and the bright blue of his eyes, which moved now over the charred ruins of the houses on each side of his. He'd burned them down to prevent them from jumping on his roof from the adjacent ones. After a few minutes he took a long, slow breath and went back into the house. He tossed the hammer on the living-room couch, then lit another cigarette and had his midmorning drink. Later he forced himself into the kitchen to grind up the five-day accumulation of garbage in the sink. He knew he should burn up the paper plates and utensils too, and dust the furniture and wash out the sinks and the bathtub and toilet, and change the sheets and pillowcase on his bed; but he didn't feel like it. For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him. * * * It was almost noon. Robert Neville was in his hothouse collecting a basketful of garlic. In the beginning it had made him sick to smell garlic in such quantity; his stomach had b
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn... .
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... Richard Matheson's classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith. Directed by Francis Lawrence ('Constantine'), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... Richard Matheson's classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith. Directed by Francis Lawrence ("Constantine"), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization.By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....Richard Matheson's classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith.Directed by Francis Lawrence (Constantine), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.
"One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."--Ray Bradbury "I think the author who influence me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like "I Am Legend" were an inspiration to me." --Stephen King "Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "Matheson inspires, it's as simple as that."--Brian Lumley
"One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."--Ray Bradbury "I think the author who influence me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legendwere an inspiration to me." --Stephen King "Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Matheson inspires, it's as simple as that."--Brian Lumley
Mathesons horrifying tale, the basis for two classic horror films, comes to the big screen once again on December 14, in a new motion picture from Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Will Smith. Somehow immune to the plague that swept the planet, Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City--and maybe the world.
Richard Matheson is the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come . A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. He lives in Calabasas, California.
PART ONE: January 1976 CHAPTER ONE On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. If he had been more analytical, he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival; but he still used the lifetime habit of judging nightfall by the sky, and on cloudy days that method didn't work. That was why he chose to stay near the house on those days. He walked around the house in the dull gray of afternoon, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, trailing threadlike smoke over his shoulder. He checked each window to see if any of the boards had been loosened. After violent attacks, the planks were often split or partially pried off, and he had to replace them completely; a job he hated. Today only one plank was loose. Isn't that amazing? he thought. In the back yard he checked the hothouse and the water tank. Sometimes the structure around the tank might be weakened or its rain catchers bent or broken off. Sometimes they would lob rocks over the high fence around the hothouse, and occasionally they would tear through the overhead net and he'd have to replace panes. Both the tank and the hothouse were undamaged today. He went to the house for a hammer and nails. As he pushed open the front door, he looked at the distorted reflection of himself in the cracked mirror he'd fastened to the door a month ago. In a few days, jagged pieces of the silver-backed glass would start to fall off. Let 'em fall, he thought. It was the last damned mirror he'd put there; it wasn't worth it. He'd put garlic there instead. Garlic always worked. He passed slowly through the dim silence of the living room, turned left into the small hallway, and left again into his bedroom. Once the room had been warmly decorated, but that was in another time. Now it was a room entirely functional, and since Neville's bed and bureau took up so little space, he had converted one side of the room into a shop. A long bench covered almost an entire wall, on its hardwood top a heavy band saw, a wood lathe, an emery wheel, and a vise. Above it, on the wall, were haphazard racks of the tools that Robert Neville used. He took a hammer from the bench and picked out a few nails from one of the disordered bins. Then he went back outside and nailed the plank fast to the shutter. The unused nails he threw into the rubble next door. For a while he stood on the front lawn looking up and down the silent length of Cimarron Street. He was a tall man, thirty-six, born of English-German stock, his features undistinguished except for the long, determined mouth and the bright blue of his eyes, which moved now over the charred ruins of the houses on each side of his. He'd burned them down to prevent them from jumping on his roof from the adjacent ones. After a few minutes he took a long, slow breath and went back into the house. He tossed the hammer on the living-room couch, then lit another cigarette and had his midmorning drink. Later he forced himself into the kitchen to grind up the five-day accumulation of garbage in the sink. He knew he should burn up the paper plates and utensils too, and dust the furniture and wash out the sinks and the bathtub and toilet, and change the sheets and pillowcase on his bed; but he didn't feel like it. For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him. * * * It was almost noon. Robert Neville was in his hothouse collecting a basketful of garlic. In the beginning it had made him sick to smell garlic in such quantity; his stomach had b
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn... .
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... Richard Matheson's classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith. Directed by Francis Lawrence ('Constantine'), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... Richard Matheson's classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith. Directed by Francis Lawrence ("Constantine"), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization.By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....Richard Matheson's classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith.Directed by Francis Lawrence (Constantine), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.
"One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."--Ray Bradbury "I think the author who influence me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like "I Am Legend" were an inspiration to me." --Stephen King "Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "Matheson inspires, it's as simple as that."--Brian Lumley
"One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."--Ray Bradbury "I think the author who influence me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legendwere an inspiration to me." --Stephen King "Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Matheson inspires, it's as simple as that."--Brian Lumley
Mathesons horrifying tale, the basis for two classic horror films, comes to the big screen once again on December 14, in a new motion picture from Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Will Smith. Somehow immune to the plague that swept the planet, Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City--and maybe the world.
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세계 공포 소설과 영화에 커다란 영향을 끼친 전설적인 흡혈귀 소설, 리처드 매드슨의 『나는 전설이다』. 1954년에 발표된 이 작품은 핵전쟁 이후 변이된 바이러스에 감염된 인류가 모두 흡혈귀가 되고 유일하게 인간으로 남은 주인공이 홀로 그들과 처절한 사투를 벌이는 이야기다. 지난 50년 동안 공포 소설의 베스트셀러 자리를 지켜온 이 작품은 고고한 귀족 흡혈귀나 타인에게 조종당하는 좀비 대신 서로 전염시키는 대규모의 흡혈귀 병이라는 섬뜩한 아이디어를 최초로 선보였다. 이러한 설정은 <살아 있는 시체들의 밤>, <새벽의 저주> 등 공포 영화에 길이 남을 걸작들을 비롯하여, 최근 인기를 끈 <28일 후>, <레지던트 이블>, <블레이드>에 이르기까지 헤아릴 수 없을 만큼 많은 영화에 사용되었으며, 비디오 게임 업계에서 좀비 돌풍을 일으킨 <바이오 해자드>, <하우스 오브 더 데드> 등 인기 게임들의 주요 설정이 되기도 했다.
지구에 핵전쟁과 세균 전쟁이라는 대재앙이 지나간 후, 전 인류가 낮을 싫어하고 인간의 피를 빨아먹는 돌연변이 흡혈귀로 변한다. 주인공 네빌은 운좋게 살아남았지만 아내와 딸, 주변 지역의 모든 사람들이 죽어 흡혈귀가 된 암울한 상황에 처한다. 인류가 멸망하고 흡혈귀가 날뛰는 세상임에도 네빌의 하루 일상은 평온하던 시절과 다르지 않게 반복적이며, 죽을때까지 지속될 지긋지긋한 일상은 차라리 죽거나 흡혈귀가 되는 것보다 더 괴롭고 암울하다. 리처드 매드슨은 이러한 설정을 통해 1950년대 미국의 중산층 남성이 전쟁 후 겪은 일상의 공포를 패러디하며, 흡혈귀들의 세상에 혼자 남은 인간으로서 네빌이 보여주는 마지막 선택은 정상과 비정상에 대한 관념들이 뒤집히는 미래상을 암시한다.
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저자(글) Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson
<table><tr><td><img src="http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/authors/258H/19444.jpg"></img></td><td>Richard Matheson is the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards.
Over a career spanning five decades, Matheson has won numerable prestigious awards, including the World Fantasy Convention's Life Achievement Award, the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement, the Hugo Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Golden Spur Award, and the Writer's Guild Award. Born in New Jersey in 1926, Matheson has lived and worked in California since 1951.</td></tr></table>
목차
- I am Legend 11
Buried Talents 171
The Near Departed 179
Prey 182
Witch War … 196
Dance of the Dead … 203
Dress of White Silk … 221
Mad House … 226
The Funeral … 261
From Shadowed Places … 270
Person to Person … 294
기본정보
| ISBN | 9780765357151 ( 0765357151 ) |
|---|---|
| 발행(출시)일자 | 2007년 10월 30일 |
| 쪽수 | 320쪽 |
| 크기 |
104 * 170
* 23
mm
/ 159 g
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| 총권수 | 1권 |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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성립되는 사회적 동물이다. 이런 사회적 동물 간에 상충되는 끊임없는 욕망과 부조리함으로
같은 인간이라고 하더라도 지역적으로 사회적으로 편안한 생활과 일상이 보장되는 곳이 있고
하루가 찾아오는 걸 지옥처럼 여기는 대조적인 편향성의 모습을 지구상에 연출하지만 좋던
싫던 간에 인간으로 태어난 이상 홀로서기를 완벽히 할 수 있는 사람이란 없다.
'나는 전설이다'는 인류가 태어나서 생존을 할 수 있는 근본적 명제인 인간의 존재가 파괴되었을 때
지구가 일방적인 지옥으로 변한 모습을 보여준다. 로버트 네빌이라는 인물은 인간이 파괴된
지옥에서 살아남은 사람이다. 이 소설을 읽는 독자들이 보편적으로 생각하는 사람이라는 기준은
소설의 장르가 SF호러가 되기에 적절한 전제가 된다.
인간이 파괴되고 사람의 형상을 한 바이러스에 감염된 흡혈귀들이 우글거리는 곳은 분명 상상만
하더라도 사후 세계에 존재하는 지옥의 재현이 확실하게 성립된다. 지옥이라고 언급할 수 있는
근거는 소설 바깥에 존재하는 현실의 모습에서 기인하고 사람의 모습을 유지하는 로버트 네빌에게
감정이입이 될 때에 극대화 된다.
홀로 사람의 존재를 유지하는 로버트 넵ㄹ에게 감정이입이 될 수밖에 없는 작품의 특성은 현살사회에
존재하는 다수에 의한 폭력적 메커니즘을 연상시키며 단순히 이분법적인 정상과 비정상으로 세상을 재단하는
관습에 비판적 시선을 던진다. 홀로 사람의 정체성을 유지해 바이러스에 감염된 이들을 로버트의 관점에
존재하는 정상적인 존재들로 회복시키기 위한 고군분투는 세상의 길들여짐을 거부하는 상징으로 해석되고
나아가서 정상이라는 존재가 집단으로 조직화된 개인의 의식 속에 은연중에 무비판적으로 의식화 되는 집단의
폭력인 것이다. 소설이 출판된 1954년이라는 매카시즘의 광풍 시대는 미국의 이분법적 시선으로 모든 걸
제단해 민주주의 국각의 정체성을 잃어버린 시대라고 할 수 있으며 매카시즘의 옹호론자들의 끔찍한 의식이
흡혈귀들을 통해 재현된다고 할 수 있다.
이런 이분법적인 소설의 진행에서 로버트 네빌은 인간의 회복을 희망적으로 할 수 있는 한 여인을 발견하지만
그녀의 혈액성분은 흡혈귀들의 변종으로 판명나고 그런 그들은 자신들이 정상이라는 호칭을 얻고자
로버트 네빌이 사냥 및 회복시키려던 흡혈귀들을 몰살하며 결국에는 로버트 네빌까지 죽음으로 이끈다.
쉬운 비유로 게임 스타 크래프트의 세 종족중 로버트 네빌의 생물학적 특성은 테란, 흡혈귀들은 저그,
변종 흡혈귀들은 프로토스와 비슷하다고 할 수 있는 것이다. 변종 흡혈귀들의 등장은 관습에 길들여진
해피엔딩을 거부하며 나르시즘의 체취가 묻어있는 제목의 근거를 제시한다. 변종 흡혈귀들의 지배야욕은
흡혈귀들은 회복시키지 않고 말살시키려는 목적이 있으며 이런 자신들의 생물학적 특성을 보이지 않는
로버트 네빌은 변종 흡혈귀들 관점에서 태초의 형상을 유지한 마지막 사람이라는 종으로 남게 되는
것이다. 실질적인 존재로서의 확실하고 정당한 근거와 합의를 잃어버린 단지 구전적으로 ~머라 카더라
식의 전설로 남았다는 결말은 정상의 패러다임이 공고히 지켜질 수 있는 성역이 아니라 언제나 역동적으로
폭력적으로 바뀔 수 있음을 드러낸다.
전설의 허무한 특성이 효과적으로 표현된 원작은 영화화로 각색되면서 그 의미가 많이 퇴색했다. 윌 스미스가
로버트 네빌로 나온 최근작에서 영웅주의에 함몰되는 모습은 소설이 가지고 잇는 허무주의와 집단의 폭력성보다
헐리웃식의 전형적인 해피엔딩에 종속되었다.
개인과 온갖 조직이 맺고 있는 관계, 그리고 정상과 비정상의 이분법적 구도가 정착되는 사회상을 묘사한
'나는 전설이다'는 인간이 지구상에 존재하는 한 결코 쉽게 해결되지 않을 명제에 대해 인용될 수 있는
텍스트로서 매력을 지닌 작품이라고 할 수 있다.
Well, ‘I am Legend’ was certainly different from those. It was real horror and scientific in many ways as well as logical. The story starts off with how Robert Neville starts his lonesome day. There’s nobody to wake up and talk to. There’s nobody to argue with. There’s nobody to contradict your idea. There’s nobody to hug you and say you’re going to be okay. There’s simply no soul around. Still all the other needs are satiated and Neville doesn’t have to worry about going hungry or having to find shelter to keep him safe. He has a house, all boarded up, with a generator to supply him enough power and enough food to last him a long time in his larder. What he lacks is only company. There are these infected zombie-like creatures but they could hardly be counted as his company. They are more like assailants and Neville’s job was to get rid of them and find another survivor like him. The job was ever demanding and Neville is only left with handful ideas to experiment on them to find out more about those infected souls. The craving for a companion drives him to the edges but after a while he gets settled on his bachelorhood. Find a way to rid the vampires. Find a way to cure them. Find it quickly. His sole purpose was focused on them and when he finally encounters another survivor like him, a woman, the feeling he comes up with is sheer irritation. I was caught off guard here. I was hoping there would come along another person, especially a woman for a bit of romance to add more spice to the book, and Neville’s reaction was nothing like I had anticipated. He was doubtful of another survivor and asks for her blood instead of welcoming her company. After the long time of craving someone tangible, Neville’s reaction was a bit of shock to me and it made me think what I would be like in that situation. No, no, I probably would’ve killed off myself a long time ago. I would’ve chosen to be gone rather than living in fear and loneliness. It takes guts to cope with your life like Neville. It turned out to be she was infected but with mutated bacteria. Unlike other infected creatures he had to butcher, her race could walk in the sun, albeit with medical aid, and was forming a new society, although still crude and small. In the end Neville realizes he had become anathema among the infected. He was abnormity and aberration and was to be eliminated. The last survivor of normal mankind and to be feared by infected new race. How inexorable…
Having grown up watching ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’, Will Smith was my hero in my teen years. His harmless sense of humor entertained me a great deal and I appreciated his music as well. Well, I belong to that ‘Boom! Shake the Room’ generation and I believe any girl of my peers have at least listened to his music once and screamed her excitement twice. My favorite movie starring Will Smith was ‘Man in Black’, and I still watch it whenever I see it on while flipping through the channels on TV. The movie makes me think my worries are petty compare to the vast universe and I shouldn’t be too overly worked up over such small stuff. After all it’s all small stuff and there’s no reason to sweat over them, unless you want to make yourself suffer for a while and get stressed out to ruin your day. Anyway I’m looking forward to watching ‘I am Legend’ as a film in December. Not only because Will Smith is in it but because the plot is great. One of my friends, who read this book a few years ago, said he wasn’t sure if Will Smith would be good enough to play Neville because the role is complicated and not a single scene in the movie should be humorous. As for me, I kept picturing Neville as Will Smith and from time to time I was confused to see the book saying stuff like Neville’s blond hair or blue eyes. It took a bit of adjustment but I have no doubt the movie will be great. Well, there’s only one way to find it out. Wait until December!
The other short stories were equally good. They were just all in my line and I savored every word gratefully. I was reminded of Shukawa Minato’s books, which I enjoyed so much. Anyone who liked Shukawa M.’s books would lose themselves in this. It’s a book to be read! Stephen King said this book bore a desire in him to be a writer and I think I now know he really meant it from the bottom of his heart. Oh, I feel like picking up the book and read it all over once again right now!