Just re-read Jaws

[Nole-4-Life]

For the first time since the 70s when it first came out. I'd forgotten that Hooper bangs Brody's wife and the shark eats him.

Watching the movie 100 times had erased the book from my memory. A good read tho.

Edit: No spoiler for a 50 year old book.

 

[VodkaSam]

For the first time since the 70s when it first came out. I'd forgotten that Hooper bangs Brody's wife and the shark eats him.

Watching the movie 100 times had erased the book from my memory. A good read tho.

Edit: No spoiler for a 50 year old book.

Reading it as a 14 year old boy, Brody banging Hooper’s wife was more engrained in my memory than the shark.

 

[BelemNole]

I enjoyed most of his novels. Good beach reads.

 

[EasyHawk]

I think I was around 12 or so and we were on a family vacation on a big lake. I read that book there and when we would go out in the lake like we did every day with goggles and fins and floats etc, I can remember thinking something huge was down there. I knew it was freshwater, but I expected something huge to appear any minute.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Reading it as a 14 year old boy, Brody banging Hooper’s wife was more engrained in my memory than the shark.

I read it about 6-7 years after the movie came out and I remember thinking “Wait, what?”

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

For the first time since the 70s when it first came out. I'd forgotten that Hooper bangs Brody's wife and the shark eats him.

Watching the movie 100 times had erased the book from my memory. A good read tho.

Edit: No spoiler for a 50 year old book.

I'd forgotten that the shark got him, but remembered the adultery.

 

[Nole-4-Life]

I'd forgotten that the shark got him, but remembered the adultery.

Additionally, Quint doesn't get eaten by the shark but get his foot tangled in a harpoon line and drowns.

 

[BubsFinn]

Reading it as a 14 year old boy, Brody banging Hooper’s wife was more engrained in my memory than the shark.

Other way around. Hooper was banging Brody’s wife. And I seem to recall the mayor having mob ties or something.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

For the first time since the 70s when it first came out. I'd forgotten that Hooper bangs Brody's wife and the shark eats him.

Watching the movie 100 times had erased the book from my memory. A good read tho.

Edit: No spoiler for a 50 year old book.

One of those few instances where the movie is better - and in this case, far better - than the book. But I did enjoy the book when I read it in the early 70's.

 

[Jan Itor]

For the first time since the 70s when it first came out. I'd forgotten that Hooper bangs Brody's wife and the shark eats him.

Watching the movie 100 times had erased the book from my memory. A good read tho.

Edit: No spoiler for a 50 year old book.

Karma is a bitch. See, in the movie he doesn’t bang Brody’s wife and he lives.

 

[SSG T]

Just a note, Hooper was supposed to get eaten in the movie. The shark tearing apart the cage caused them to rewrite the script because it was easier to do that then to reshoot the shark footage

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

Poor Hooper. lol

 

[HawkOptimist]

Interesting, I’d never heard that about Hooper and chief’s wife in the book. Any description or excerpts of said banging?

 

[The Tradition]

I enjoyed most of his novels. Good beach reads.

Speaking of books you shouldn't read in certain circumstances, I was home sick back in the early 90s and decided to read Stephen King's, "The Stand"...

This was the novel about a lab-created disease that wipes out 99 percent of humanity.

The first few chapters describe how the disease transmitted from person to person to person. One particularly colorful passage described a guy eating at a diner and leaving a $1 tip that was "crawling with death." And of course, King described the flu-like symptoms that rapidly lead to death in graphic detail.

Again, I was reading this while home sick experiencing all the symptoms King wrote about (except for the death part).

I thought about that novel a lot when the COVID shitstorm happened.

 

[Chewback]

Trying to wrap my head around the concept of "reading Jaws." Not succeeding.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Anyone read 'the Deep' or other Benchly books?

Didnt he have one about modern pirates?

 

[Tom Paris]

Anyone read 'the Deep' or other Benchly books?

Didnt he have one about modern pirates?

Is Jacqueline Bissett in a wet t-shirt in the book??

 

[The Tradition]

Is Jacqueline Bissett in a wet t-shirt in the book??

Yes, but you have to use your imagination.

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

Speaking of books you shouldn't read in certain circumstances, I was home sick back in the early 90s and decided to read Stephen King's "The Stand"...

This was the novel about a lab-created disease that wipes out 99 percent of humanity.

The first few chapters describe how the disease transmitted from person to person to person. One particularly colorful passage described a guy eating at a diner and leaving a $1 tip that was "crawling with death." And of course, King described the flu-like symptoms that rapidly lead to death in graphic detail.

Again, I was reading this while home sick experiencing all the symptoms King wrote about (except for the death part).

I thought about that novel a lot when the COVID shitstorm happened.

How long were you sick? That's a long ass book. I consider it his best work, although I don't think the supernatural aspect was necessary. It's gripping enough simply being about Captain Trips and world chaos.

 

[The Tradition]

How long were you sick? That's a long ass book. I consider it his best work, although I don't think the supernatural aspect was necessary. It's gripping enough simply being about Captain Trips and world chaos.

Just a few days. I'm a speed reader.

 

[Fan In Black]

one of my favorite things is to read the book after the movie. it gives me mental images of the characters and the book always expands on the story. It's like a deep dive into the story the movie told.

 

[JRHawk2003]

one of my favorite things is to read the book after the movie. it gives me mental images of the characters and the book always expands on the story. It's like a deep dive into the story the movie told.

I did that with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Love that book.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

They also came back each day after shark hunting if I recall correctly.

 

[BelemNole]

Anyone read 'the Deep' or other Benchly books?

Didnt he have one about modern pirates?

Yes, read them all.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Speaking of books you shouldn't read in certain circumstances, I was home sick back in the early 90s and decided to read Stephen King's, "The Stand"...

This was the novel about a lab-created disease that wipes out 99 percent of humanity.

The first few chapters describe how the disease transmitted from person to person to person. One particularly colorful passage described a guy eating at a diner and leaving a $1 tip that was "crawling with death." And of course, King described the flu-like symptoms that rapidly lead to death in graphic detail.

Again, I was reading this while home sick experiencing all the symptoms King wrote about (except for the death part).

I thought about that novel a lot when the COVID shitstorm happened.

The passage that has stuck with me since I read it back in college was when Stu was climbing out of the ravine where the bridge had collapsed. He grabs at the asphalt of the road as he gets to the top and "one fingernail peeled off like a wet decal".

And it's best in its original, edited version, IMO. The stuff King added when he released HIS version was distracting. Editors exist for a reason, Stephen.

 

[SeaPA]

Speaking of books you shouldn't read in certain circumstances, I was home sick back in the early 90s and decided to read Stephen King's, "The Stand"...

This was the novel about a lab-created disease that wipes out 99 percent of humanity.

The first few chapters describe how the disease transmitted from person to person to person. One particularly colorful passage described a guy eating at a diner and leaving a $1 tip that was "crawling with death." And of course, King described the flu-like symptoms that rapidly lead to death in graphic detail.

Again, I was reading this while home sick experiencing all the symptoms King wrote about (except for the death part).

I thought about that novel a lot when the COVID shitstorm happened.

Ha, when I was in high school, I was home alone one evening & was reading Helter Skelter (the book about the Manson family murders). When the family was outside getting ready for one of the attacks (I think it was the Tate murders), there's some very detailed text of a dog barking like crazy & a man shushing the dog. Right as I was reading that part, the %$!$^% neighbor's German Shepherd starts going nuts barking at something.

I ended up grabbing dad's pistol and the biggest butcher knife we had in the kitchen, and sitting in a corner of an interior room for the next couple of hours waiting for my parents to get home. I wasn't going out without a fight.

 

[Nole-4-Life]

Trying to wrap my head around the concept of "reading Jaws." Not succeeding.

Which part don't you understand? It's apparent you can read.

 

[Nole-4-Life]

Anyone read 'the Deep' or other Benchly books?

Didnt he have one about modern pirates?

The pirate one was The Island. I've looked in a couple of libraries but can't find it. I remember it being pretty good.

 

[Nole-4-Life]

They also came back each day after shark hunting if I recall correctly.

Your recall is perfect.

 

[JRHawk2003]

The pirate one was The Island. I've looked in a couple of libraries but can't find it. I remember it being pretty good.

Yes! Also they made it into a movie in 1980

 

[seminoleed]

Speaking of books you shouldn't read in certain circumstances, I was home sick back in the early 90s and decided to read Stephen King's, "The Stand"...

This was the novel about a lab-created disease that wipes out 99 percent of humanity.

The first few chapters describe how the disease transmitted from person to person to person. One particularly colorful passage described a guy eating at a diner and leaving a $1 tip that was "crawling with death." And of course, King described the flu-like symptoms that rapidly lead to death in graphic detail.

Again, I was reading this while home sick experiencing all the symptoms King wrote about (except for the death part).

I thought about that novel a lot when the COVID shitstorm happened.

For me, that book is King's Magnum Opus. I can't remember how many times I've sat down and re-read that thing, and I still get goose bumps every time.

And both movie versions were fairly faithful to the original text, especially the second one.

 

[seminoleed]

The pirate one was The Island. I've looked in a couple of libraries but can't find it. I remember it being pretty good.

When you can't find what you're looking for at the libraries, this site will send you a copy, usually in great condition, at a cheap price.

The Island by Peter Benchley - AbeBooks

The Island by Benchley, Peter and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.

www.abebooks.com

 

[Nole-4-Life]

For me, that book is King's Magnum Opus. I can't remember how many times I've sat down and re-read that thing, and I still get goose bumps every time.

And both movie versions were fairly faithful to the original text, especially the second one.

Really? I thought the first one with Gary Sinese was more faithful to the book. The second one had that weird ending where one of the characters fell down a well. It was odd.

 

[hawkirugged17]

Good Twitter account ...

 

[Nole-4-Life]

When you can't find what you're looking for at the libraries, this site will send you a copy, usually in great condition, at a cheap price.

The Island by Peter Benchley - AbeBooks

The Island by Benchley, Peter and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.

www.abebooks.com

Boom...thanks dude!

 

[pink shizzle]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia- Jaws

 

[ICWestfan]

For me, that book is King's Magnum Opus. I can't remember how many times I've sat down and re-read that thing, and I still get goose bumps every time.

And both movie versions were fairly faithful to the original text, especially the second one.

I feel the only movie that was literally faithful to the text was The Green Mile. In fact, I'm not sure that the movie script wasn't made into the book.

That's the thing about King books; while they are great reads, they typically don't translate well to the big screen.

 

[Fan In Black]

the King short story that makes the hair on my neck stand up is 1408. I don't know why. That story creeps me the F out.

 

[Jan Itor]

The pirate one was The Island. I've looked in a couple of libraries but can't find it. I remember it being pretty good.

Good movie and book.

 

[Jan Itor]

Yes! Also they made it into a movie in 1980

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