The English edition is only 170 pages. Unfortunately, the edition I picked up failed to mention that its I Am Legend with a bunch of short stories, which ticked me off, as I was expecting more to the story.
I did the same thing today at work! I'm like on page 168, and thinking, 'how much longer can this go on?' And then, bam, there's the ending. So apparently half the book is other short stories.
The rest of the stories are good - the one with the killing doll creeped the fuck out of me! I actually got goosebumps...I was lying in bed when I was reading that, and I was tempted to check under the bed before I fell asleep!
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Neville is the one at the end who makes the connection that he is their boogeyman. In fact, the final line in the story is "I am legend," which is what Neville thinks as he realizes that he will be the nightmare story that people will pass on down for generations.
I kind of liked the ending. It had some bite (bad pun, bad pun). Have you see The Omega Man?
No, what's that?
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Because that ending is also pretty quick -- there's a whole different emphasis in that movie, but Neville ends up dying in the end too.
The ending has grown on me. It was a bit abrupt, which I didn't like, but it makes sense. I will totally be surprised if that is the ending that Hollywood goes with.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
