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It's a bit hard to see how beaten up this book is. It lives in my beach/pool bag and has for years. It is definitely more fun to read on the beach--people tend to avoid you.

Anyway, while I really enjoy this book, this is definitely one case where the movie is better.

This year is the 50th anniversary since Jaws was first published. The story still holds up after all this time. We‘re unfortunately still asking what‘s more important: human lives or money?
🚧 This is a banned book!
I have seen the movie many times over the years, & I enjoyed most differences between the two.
Speaking of movies, I was randomly rewatching Back to the Future 2 & laughed at the Jaws 19 prediction.
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#doublespin #bookspinbingo

I usually don‘t pay much attention to how the #booklyapp puts the cover in the background of the timer, but…
Da, duh, da, duh, dundundundun!
This one surprised me!
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(Currently on page 195)
#bookly

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

Thanks for the tag and for hosting this @dabbe -

Jaws, Jaws, Jaws - my favorite movie!!

Happy 4th of July everyone 🎉

I may have only seen 42, but I LOVE so many of those 42 movies.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday

1) Halloween
2) Grease
3) Alien

(Just a few of my other favs - Jaws, The Exorcist, The Bad News Bears, Star Wars, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
@dabbe

Nothing like the film
Misogynistic at worst..
And needed more shark
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Ok, so despite the many 70s culture flaws going on with the characters and whatnot... I still very much enjoyed the ride. Enough to finish, at least. What drew me in initially was reading from "The Fish" perspective. It was creepy and definitely made me tremble a bit. ?
Character side drama... a lot to take in. Tbh.. my favorite character was the shark.

#haikureview

I'm taking a break from listening to Don Quixote during my commute.. and I started listening to Jaws! 🦈

Thoroughly enjoying it, though I have to remind myself this was written in the 70's because his references to costs and what seemed expensive back then.... man, I WISH. Imagine making 8k a YEAR and still being able to afford a house and support a stay at home mom/wife and 3 children. Yeah... right. Not in this economy!!

#currentlyreading

Listening as we drive to Dollywood!

From the TBR shelf (saw the movie countless times):

One of my favorite 80s hairband songs is #OnceBittenTwiceShy by Great White

#IdiomInsight

Haven‘t seen this one in forever! Since I just finished the #Audio I thought I‘d revisit :) #BookToScreen

I just finished this one on #Audio and absolutely loved it!!!! I need to rewatch the movie soon :) 🦈

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Decided to finally read this while preparing for a beach vacation. Literally everything with Helen is sexist and irrelevant to the story, but the parts with the shark, though? So. Freaking. Good! The opening scene is one of the best I‘ve ever read. You almost don‘t hate the fish. Almost.

Some parts of this book made me cringe but overall I loved this epic of a small town vs a very large fish.

I was hooked (pun intended) immediately. Were all the characters fleshed out? No, but that‘s not the point. The fish itself, the town as a whole (perhaps my favorite character), Quint and Brody are really all you need to put together a quick read and I thoroughly enjoyed the novel. It‘s no classic of American literature, but it‘s gripping and terrifying in its own way, just the same.

( 📸 Jaws memes I saw this week &a semi-local beach had a shark sighting)
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This book is trash.
Spielberg is a whole genius for making such a good movie out of such terrible source material.

It‘s racist even by 1970s standards. I have no idea what issues Benchley was working through with Brody‘s wife -but yikes. Unnecessary pet death. The mafia is there? The police show a half eaten body to a civilian?

Not enough Quint& not enough Shark
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I am so thankful for the things they left out when they made the movie.
There‘s racist language and undertones in the book and one of the worst instances here of men writing women I ever read. 😂

This is off to a weird start 🤣
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The prose is not what I expected to say the least.

I don‘t have enough words to express how much I disliked this well written book. Maybe it is a classic but maybe sometimes movies are better than books. I will remember a cast full of unlikeable characters, some good deaths, and too little shark. Hated it.

Jaws is my absolute favourite movie of all time. Movie making perfection in my opinion. I read the books when I was much younger and don‘t really remember it but I snagged it at the library and started yesterday. I‘ve been flying through books but slowed down end of February so hopefully this helps me pick up steam again. Have a great weekend! MacGruber in the background as a #caturday offering

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This book doesn't hold up well with age. I found the story to be sexist and racist which distracted me and reduced my enjoyment.

Jaws was interesting.
Peter Benchley did a great job writing unlikable characters. The parts of the book I enjoyed the most were of the shark. Or as he's called in the book 'The Fish'.
The movie felt like a different story. They changed a considerable amount, and I don't have a problem with that at all. And as always, a jump scare got me even though I knew it was coming.

Book: 4/10
Book 🦈: 10/10
Movie: 6/10
Movie 🦈: 10/10

I started Jaws this morning, it is my scare pair for the #screamathon since I have never read or seen the movie.
So far, I agree with Steve Spielberg. I also find the characters unsympathetic and I want the shark to eat them all. 😅
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@4thhouseontheleft

I read this one a couple months back, and it has not aged well. The toothy bits are great. The way women are written, not so much.

#FallTreasures
Day 14: published the year I was born
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The shark isn't as mystified as in the film and there is a greater focus on domestic drama between the characters, but Jaws the book still holds up as a perfectly thrilling summer read.

#conflictedworlds #animal
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Really enjoyed!!! Very different than the movie. I recommend you read it.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ https://suspensebookreviews.home.blog/2021/08/09/jaws-by-peter-benchley/

I loved the movie adaptation, the novel did not disappoint either. A man-eating shark terrorizes the small town of Amity. The rein of terror causes countless deaths and poses other problems for this beach town. Officer Cheif Brody attempts to find a way to put a stop to the shark attacks. Great read!

https://open.spotify.com/show/1MH8uJJNVfkIbrmJ2Sn09s?si=AgNv3WS7Slq_I6dWVC1Ofw

Check out my new #bookreview #podcast! Currently reading Jaws by Peter Benchley

This is a reluctant pick. I liked the fishy bits but could have done without Ellen Brody altogether. Her character's actions were ridiculous and totally unnecessary to the plot in my opinion. I tried to remember that this book is older than I am and give it a bit of slack for that, but...Benchley was not a great writer of women. Ignoring that bit, the book was a quick and intense read.

Bk2 of August & #LitsySummerCampReadathon is done. Finished this last night but fell asleep before posting. Got a good start on the baby blanket with #audioknitting to this, really helps my concentration on both. This book is very different from the movie, and while I did enjoy this it‘s a rare case of the movie is better. Still, it was an insight into 70s culture. #BookspinBingo #Pageathon #AudiobookChallenge2021 #PennyPerPage

Today‘s #SummerCampReadathon is brought to you by Jaws. It‘s one of my favourite movies of all time & I have read this before but that was over 20yrs ago. I saw it was included in my Audible membership & decided to get some #audioknitting done to it. I‘m loving this cotton yarn from Fiddlesticks Yarn, it‘s so easy to work with & has a softness and stretch to it that‘s gonna be beautiful to wrap up bub in. What are you doing this lovely Tuesday?

I thought this would be the perfect beach read. It turns out that I have to give the screenwriters and Spielberg a ton of credit for trimming away the parts of the story that didn‘t work. The characters are less likable, the reader is forced to endure a pseudo-romantic subplot that bogs things down, and the shark hunt is less exciting, partially due to the fact the three guys on the boat can‘t stand one another. 2.5/5
#Bookspinbingo

Reading Jaws by the ocean? Great idea, always found the movie funny because of how bad the shark is portrayed. The book? Can‘t stand how chief Brody is portrayed. You can tell this book is written by a man. Easy. There‘s a whole side story about Mrs Brody and Hooper “getting along”. What struck me was that hooper and chief did not get along, at all. How the shark is shown with animal insight and human brains.
Movie > book #shark #capecod

Happy #SharkWeek 🦈
Decided to finally read the classic book that started a cult classic. I‘ve seen the movie multiple times, always laughing at how fake it clearly is. With all this book and movie did, let none forget that Peter didn‘t like how sharks were viewed afterwards, yet happy to see how many people began to wonder about them. How many people went on to study sharks because of this story. Based on the 4 July attacks in 1916 New Jersey

🦈 One of my favorite movies yet I‘ve never read the book. Let‘s do this! #happy4thofjuly 🇺🇸

Like a lot of people, my only previous experience with this book was the movie adaptation. Luckily, the book was great. The plot is largely the same, with some significant differences, but the characters in the book are much less likeable and flawed. Quint, for ex., is still charming and funny, but his behavior toward animals is much more brutal. The movie cut a whole side plot about Hooper which makes him a very unsympathetic character as well.

This book is a product of its time, written in the mid seventies you can really see how much more research has been done on sharks since (for example we now know that if a woman gets killed by a shark its not to do with her period, sigh) but also in terms of its attitude towards women, lesbians and people of colour.

Overall this was a very bingeable read which I enjoyed, issues aside.

So, I‘m going to be brutally honest: I did not like this book. It actually annoyed me. I usually believe the book is always better, but I imagine that after seeing the movie so many times it skewed my opinion. I felt there were a lot of things in the book that were a disservice to the movie characters I love. That being said, I might have enjoyed it had I only read the book.

Almost 16 years ago my dad passed from cancer. He never read for pleasure. Instead he loved movies and for his whole life shared that love with me. The Jaws movie was on his top ten list (and consequently mine) Both of us could probably recite the entire script. I found the audio of the book (believe it or not I never read it, ever) & started listening tonight while drawing valentines. Enjoying this little bit of memory

A rainy afternoon with Mr K ♥️

Super different from the movie, but still pretty ok. It also means that I finished my #bookspin book today! First time getting both that and the #doublebookspin done! After a long and cruddy week I think that is a success! Thank goodness for a long weekend.

Photo of Bruce the shark from Jaws is from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

Working on my #bookspin pick. I changed it from another title to Jaws on Tuesday because the other was was incredibly boring and now what I was hoping

Took a trip to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy today and they have a Jaws display. These are the drawings for the pitch that Peter Benchley made for the movie. 🦈. I‘d love having them framed on my own wall.

📖 Jaws, first one that comes to mind
❤ My grandmother married her high school sweetheart 67 years later.
🎶 Surf rock like Miserlou, California Girls, Sleepwalk, etc; Boardwalk Angel & Jersey Girl feel very NJ summer; Summertime by the Fresh Prince Will Smith; and Sublime's entire 40 oz. to Freedom album gives me summer vibes, even in the dead of winter.
Tag! You're all it! 😁
Thanks for the tag @katy4peas
#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

That first chapter traumatized 7yo Cleo 😅

• Have You Seen The Rain by CCR, which is still one of my favourites
• it‘s finally raining after a week of super hot days

#thankfulthursday @Cosmos_Moon

In honor of Shark Week! 🦈🦈🦈🦈
#nowlistening

Some more Shark Week shenanigans for you! 🦈🌊
@curiouserandcurioser

It is Shark Week and @curiouserandcurioser and I will be celebrating all week long 🦈🌊🦈🌊🦈