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Jaws
by Peter Benchley
✧ Review ✧
Title: Jaws
Author: Peter Benchley
Pages: 330
Genre: Horror
I’m writing this first note 40 pages in… at page 17 I had a slight eyebrow raise and cringe at the writing. At page 30 the fact this book was written in the 70s by a white man in his 30s is very obvious. You can interpret that however you like… and now at page 39 my eyes have fully rolled out of my head and had me googling “does menstrual blood attract sharks”.. now enough of past Alex, let’s see what present day, finished the book Alex thinks…
My main takeaway was that this novel has so many pointless scenes and even more pointless descriptions… why do I need to know how Brady carried three glasses?
None of the characters are likeable, the men are misogynistic and the women play into the stereotypes and are annoying. This book could be 200 pages shorter with numerous chapters cut completely.
At first the book is great. The opening chapter is super engaging and then nothing happens, at all, other than side plot stories which add zero to the storyline. Between the first two chapters and the last two chapters there is nothing about the shark?! We just follow the police chiefs bitch wife and the fact she wants to cheat on him to see if she’s still desirable?! Like what?! There is literally a shark eating people and we’re reading about some man’s wife for 100 pages asking if another man is ‘big’…
I straight after rewatched the film for the first time since my childhood to confirm my thoughts… This is one of those rare occasions where the film is better than the book. Spielberg may be a genius that he had this book and made Jaws the iconic film it is today. I wouldn’t bother wasting your time reading this.
I’ve never been more disappointed by a book when comparing it to a film.
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Title: Jaws
Author: Peter Benchley
Pages: 330
Genre: Horror
I’m writing this first note 40 pages in… at page 17 I had a slight eyebrow raise and cringe at the writing. At page 30 the fact this book was written in the 70s by a white man in his 30s is very obvious. You can interpret that however you like… and now at page 39 my eyes have fully rolled out of my head and had me googling “does menstrual blood attract sharks”.. now enough of past Alex, let’s see what present day, finished the book Alex thinks…
My main takeaway was that this novel has so many pointless scenes and even more pointless descriptions… why do I need to know how Brady carried three glasses?
None of the characters are likeable, the men are misogynistic and the women play into the stereotypes and are annoying. This book could be 200 pages shorter with numerous chapters cut completely.
At first the book is great. The opening chapter is super engaging and then nothing happens, at all, other than side plot stories which add zero to the storyline. Between the first two chapters and the last two chapters there is nothing about the shark?! We just follow the police chiefs bitch wife and the fact she wants to cheat on him to see if she’s still desirable?! Like what?! There is literally a shark eating people and we’re reading about some man’s wife for 100 pages asking if another man is ‘big’…
I straight after rewatched the film for the first time since my childhood to confirm my thoughts… This is one of those rare occasions where the film is better than the book. Spielberg may be a genius that he had this book and made Jaws the iconic film it is today. I wouldn’t bother wasting your time reading this.
I’ve never been more disappointed by a book when comparing it to a film.
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆