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kevin_shepherd 's review for:
Jaws
by Peter Benchley
Jaws was my first experience of reading a novel AFTER seeing the film on which it was based. As it turns out, the screenplay was, with a few exceptions, so true to the source material that it enhanced rather than detracted from my enjoyment of the book. Benchley really fleshes out his characters and we see events unfolding from several different points of view. He even, very effectively, puts us inside the mind of the shark. I would be hard pressed to recall another instance when a novel and its screen adaptation complimented each other so frightfully well.
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NOTE: I probably shouldn’t review books I read 47 years ago without at least a cursory perusal. The impressions I had at age 13, like almost everything else I had at age 13 (abs, optimism, hair...), are quite likely long gone.
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NOTE: I probably shouldn’t review books I read 47 years ago without at least a cursory perusal. The impressions I had at age 13, like almost everything else I had at age 13 (abs, optimism, hair...), are quite likely long gone.