It was just seeming so painfully gratuitous! Checking out his bio, it looks like he was a writer for The Twilight Zone too, which does explain the proclivity for Big Twist endings, at least. (Did you manage to get through the whole thing? Kudos, dude. I've officially given up on it, unfortunately.)
The phrase 'shaggy dog tale gone wrong' does spring to mind. :-P I quite liked the idea of I Am Legend, even if the execution was kind of painful, but the shorter stories after it in the book didn't even seem to be throwing the reader a bit of plot before the shock-value ending.
Even if it gets a little buried under symbolism at times. *G*
I feel the need to clarify! The whole book is called I Am Legend, but that's also the name of the first short story in the book. And there's plenty of meaning in that one; I just didn't like it because of the main character. After that one, there are other stories not in the zombievampire universe. The one I quoted from up there is Nearly Departed. And it was three pages long and entirely without social commentary, beyond perhaps 'first degree murder is funny when it's your wife!'
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And, also, zombievampires WITHOUT social commentary? That's just wrong.
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I feel the need to clarify! The whole book is called I Am Legend, but that's also the name of the first short story in the book. And there's plenty of meaning in that one; I just didn't like it because of the main character. After that one, there are other stories not in the zombievampire universe. The one I quoted from up there is Nearly Departed. And it was three pages long and entirely without social commentary, beyond perhaps 'first degree murder is funny when it's your wife!'
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