{"id":330,"date":"2014-05-10T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/10\/my-book-review-i-am-legend\/"},"modified":"2014-05-10T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T21:23:00","slug":"my-book-review-i-am-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/10\/my-book-review-i-am-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"My Book Review: I Am Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/547094.I_Am_Legend_and_Other_Stories\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img alt=\"I Am Legend and Other Stories\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1317791583m\/547094.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/547094.I_Am_Legend_and_Other_Stories\">I Am Legend and Other Stories<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8726.Richard_Matheson\">Richard Matheson<\/a><br \/>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/924448095\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time I knew &#8220;I am Legend&#8221; as a zombie story (made into a film)and after the outstanding fun of World War Z I decided to give the written version a try.<\/p>\n<p>It should go without saying then that I was truly surprised and jarred some when the story&#8217;s antagonist spoke, interacted and shared the dark gift of the vampire.<\/p>\n<p>This unexpected turned at first seemed off putting but as the protagonist mental and physical decay started to unfold I really began to care about his particular lot and the story became involving.<\/p>\n<p>The ending was surprising. Different from the film, it took a tragic turn that Hollywood is too chicken to take. That as well impressed me.<\/p>\n<p>The stories that accompany this tale did not grab me and so as a whole I feel the lower rating is needed. I am Legend on its own is sad, creepy and a page turner. I recommend it over the flick. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/20651643-hugo-torres\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars Once upon a time I knew &#8220;I am Legend&#8221; as a zombie story (made into a film)and after the outstanding fun of World War Z I decided to give the written version a try. It should go without saying then that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/10\/my-book-review-i-am-legend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Book Review: I Am Legend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[978,977,6,975,976,974],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}