Capsule Review: I Am Legend

I finally managed to read Richard Matheson's I am legend. The book is a collection of short stories (principally "I am legend" with some other "oooo, isn't that ironic" type short stories tacked on the end). "I am legend" is about the last man left alive in the world when everyone else turns into a vampire - he has to survive the night and scavenge for food and gas by day as he tries to discover the rules by which the vampires live and die. Eventually vampire society progresses and he discovers that he is the abnormal one. Capsule review: A chilling tale of conformity gone mad. It was so so but (SPOILERS!) once the vampires get organzied, the protaganist pretty much just gives up. It seems like the point was how societies norms changed rather than realism. The book was made into an even more so-so movie - The Omega Man - and a hi-larious Simpsons spoof "The Homega Man".