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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 372591" data-attributes="member: 5079">Not directly connected to JAWS,&nbsp; but I started the summer reading the novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Came-Monster-Jersey-Attacks/dp/B0B85B3Z4Q" target="_blank">SILENT CAME THE MONSTER</a>.&nbsp; This is a (not very) fictionalized account of the Jersey shore shark attacks of 1916 -- which, in turn, were the inspiration for the novel JAWS.&nbsp; The book reads like an unofficial prequel to the most famous shark story.&nbsp; One of the problems with the sequels -- and, indeed, all subsequent shark attack films -- is that JAWS covered all the bases.&nbsp; What else is left, other than repetition?&nbsp;&nbsp; I thought the novel had some nice angles to the tale, most notably that it was set at a time when sharks were barely understood.&nbsp; I live about an hour from where those 1916 shark attacks occurred and there were several great white sightings and a few minor shark attacks this year along the coast.&nbsp; None of this stopped me from going into the ocean a lot this year, but I had the JAWS theme in my head the entire time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 372591, member: 5079"] Not directly connected to JAWS, but I started the summer reading the novel [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Came-Monster-Jersey-Attacks/dp/B0B85B3Z4Q']SILENT CAME THE MONSTER[/URL]. This is a (not very) fictionalized account of the Jersey shore shark attacks of 1916 -- which, in turn, were the inspiration for the novel JAWS. The book reads like an unofficial prequel to the most famous shark story. One of the problems with the sequels -- and, indeed, all subsequent shark attack films -- is that JAWS covered all the bases. What else is left, other than repetition? I thought the novel had some nice angles to the tale, most notably that it was set at a time when sharks were barely understood. I live about an hour from where those 1916 shark attacks occurred and there were several great white sightings and a few minor shark attacks this year along the coast. None of this stopped me from going into the ocean a lot this year, but I had the JAWS theme in my head the entire time. [/QUOTE]

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