Richard Matheson does an outstanding job at making Robert Neville seem believable as a character. The crazy amount of sorrow and loneliness he experiences is enough to make you want to put the book down and want to be surrounded by people just to know they exist. The setting of Los Angeles is great because it gives the vampire/zombies plenty of places to hide and lurk. The way Neville goes through his day to day life of scavenging for food and trying to find the scientific causes of the pandemic seems so real, as in that is what real life people would be doing if this same thing were to happen to them. I just wish that his short lived dog stuck around longer. I am a sucker for animals.
The uniqueness of the monsters themselves are incredibly intriguing to me. I have never heard of, read or seen a movie about vampire zombies. Different kinds of monsters are oddly facinating to me. As the story goes on we start to learn more about the vampire zombies like how they can infect the living or dead, they are affected by garlic, mirrors and crosses. I thought the detail that the vampire zombies react differently to crosses according to what their religion was in their past lives as human beings. Such as, how a christian vampire zombie would be frightened by a cross but a jewish vampire zombie would not. Also, Neville discovers more ways to kill the vampire zombies. At first he just uses a stake to the heart but he figures out that sunlight or creating deep wounds in them kills them much faster and in larger numbers.
Ruth is a strange person to me because ya she is upset that her husband just died but at the same time she disagrees with killing the vampire zombies because they were once human. I also thought that the way he people have started to cope with the infection and are so terrible to Neville because he is not one of them is just awe full. He is the minority among these infected people who might still be a bit insane of the disease. One would think that they would love Neville because he is learning so much about the disease and could potentially cure them, but no they all seem to be heartless and inhumane and execute him. Sad ending :(
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