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Loading... Jaws (1974)by Peter Benchley
Movie's better. (  ) KidSisyphus | Apr 5, 2013 |  saw the film, don't own it, probably won't get around to reading it.  velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 | One of the better horror books I have read that was turned into a movie blockbuster. Benchley successfully portrays the feeling of terror that Spielberg later shows in his 1975 movie adaptation. (  ) rsplenda477 | Mar 27, 2013 | The story that put a new spin on horror. It spawned a series of films and probably generated more publicity than any other book I remember. It made people actually think twice about going into the water. Incredible. (  ) shesinplainview | Nov 25, 2012 | fancied something a bit less demanding from some of my other reads and this slice of 1970s horror/disaster movie ticks many of the right boxes. It has a number of scenes of drama and horror and the final sequence on the boat with the three leads tracking down the shark (usually referred to, rather inadequately, simply as the fish) was tense, though slightly tarnished for me by rather too much description of harpoons and cleats. The fling between Brody's wife and Hooper seemed like padding as well. But a satisfying bit of escapism over all. 3.5/5. ( ) john257hopper | Oct 21, 2012 |
 While Jaws the movie is a bone-chilling update on Moby Dick, Jaws the novel is more like Peyton Place by the sea. Everyone swears like a sailor, and the hunt for the shark comes a very distant second to a bunch of hot summer trysts. Is contained inHas the adaptationInspired
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