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Work InformationJaws by Peter Benchley (1974)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Rarely do books and movies based on those books run neck in neck for being so good. But, this is an example. The movie ran pretty much parallel to the book, with a few things changed. The book was also a wonderful experience. It went more in-depth into relationships and plot lines (as the books often do). To get the full range of the movie, it is a good idea to indulge in the book. I listened to this on audio, read by Erik Steele. It was a wonderful read/listen and I recommend it to any and everyone that loves horror and/or loved the movie.
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. Belongs to SeriesJaws novels (1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesDelfinserien (536) Zwarte Beertjes (1739) Öölane (9) Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inPeter Benchley Collection: Jaws, The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Beast: Reader's Digest Condensed Books by Peter Benchley Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Jaws • A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax • The Fearful Void • Pied Piper • End Play by Reader's Digest Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher, Bestseller-Sonderband - Der weisse Hai. Nehmen Sie Platz. Der Turm. Die Baskenmütze by Reader's Digest Hajen/Konungarnas förbannelse/Örnens väg/Mamma visste bäst (Det bästas bokval, sammandrag) by Reader's Digest InspiredDistinctionsNotable Lists
With the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phenomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature ... and man against himself. As the movie continues to broadcast all over the world, entire generations may know the Jaws story only through its cinematic rendition. Those unfamiliar with the literary forerunner are in for a wonderful surprise, for the novel contains many twists of plot and character that were omitted in the film. Peter Benchley's Jaws is an extraordinary experience of its own, a masterpiece as mesmerizing today as it was in 1974, when it first took us into the watery world of a creature designed by nature to kill ... and into the terror it brings from the silent darkness of the deep. No library descriptions found.
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