The Deep
2 journalers for this copy...
The second novel, I think, from one-hit-wonder Peter Benchley. OK, on the cover it says that this one is/was a bestseller too, but really - after 'Jaws', what can compare? Though this seems to make its best effort to try as it also deals with monsters of the deep, sharks among them, in fact. We'll see. Update will follow.
I got this book at a flea market at Vinderen elementary school in Oslo on Sunday, November 5th, 2006.
I got this book at a flea market at Vinderen elementary school in Oslo on Sunday, November 5th, 2006.
From the front cover:
'The stunning new bestseller from the author of JAWS'
From the back cover:
'''For the second time - the book you can't put down' Daily Mail
'Better than JAWS. Ever escalating shocks' Time
'Entertainment ... adventure ... and underwater chill ... two honeymooners ... sunken Bermudan treasure ... a sinister black revolutionary and a traitor concealed among the good guys ... slow cruising sharks ... ocean floor manoeuvres and needle-toothed moray eels darting suddenly from the reef cavities in which the treasure rests' Newsweek
'Cracking entertainment'
Daily Telegraph'
This is a paperback copy from Pan Books, published in 1977. The book was originally published in 1976.
'The stunning new bestseller from the author of JAWS'
From the back cover:
'''For the second time - the book you can't put down' Daily Mail
'Better than JAWS. Ever escalating shocks' Time
'Entertainment ... adventure ... and underwater chill ... two honeymooners ... sunken Bermudan treasure ... a sinister black revolutionary and a traitor concealed among the good guys ... slow cruising sharks ... ocean floor manoeuvres and needle-toothed moray eels darting suddenly from the reef cavities in which the treasure rests' Newsweek
'Cracking entertainment'
Daily Telegraph'
This is a paperback copy from Pan Books, published in 1977. The book was originally published in 1976.
I started reading this book on Friday. So far so good ... although not on the level of 'Jaws'. An OK read. No sea monsters in evidence so far ...
Finished this on Tuesday, April 29th.
There weren't any real sea monsters in this one. :-) Just some regular sharks and morays. I guess I misread the blurb - gee, I wonder how that can have happened ... ! ;-)
Well, I stand by my first assessment - an OK read. Entertaining and relatively well written, but nothing that special. 'Jaws' is better, no contest. It's more clever with a 'twistier' plot. This plot was pretty straightforward, nothing that kept me really wondering. But it was perfectly acceptable entertainment and had some good characters.
The book was interesting in that what seemed kind of racist to me in the descriptions of the black characters - racist in the sense that I don't think anyone would phrase things that way today - was probably totally normal 30 years ago.
The descriptions of the diving and various things to do with that was very credible; it's obvious that Benchley really 'wrote what he knew' in this book.
Available for new readers now - will probably be released pretty soon.
There weren't any real sea monsters in this one. :-) Just some regular sharks and morays. I guess I misread the blurb - gee, I wonder how that can have happened ... ! ;-)
Well, I stand by my first assessment - an OK read. Entertaining and relatively well written, but nothing that special. 'Jaws' is better, no contest. It's more clever with a 'twistier' plot. This plot was pretty straightforward, nothing that kept me really wondering. But it was perfectly acceptable entertainment and had some good characters.
The book was interesting in that what seemed kind of racist to me in the descriptions of the black characters - racist in the sense that I don't think anyone would phrase things that way today - was probably totally normal 30 years ago.
The descriptions of the diving and various things to do with that was very credible; it's obvious that Benchley really 'wrote what he knew' in this book.
Available for new readers now - will probably be released pretty soon.
Journal Entry 5 by 
LeishaCamden
at -- Et ukjent sted i Oslo in -- wild release somewhere in Oslo, Oslo fylke Norway on Sunday, July 5, 2009
LeishaCamden at -- Et ukjent sted i Oslo in -- wild release somewhere in Oslo, Oslo fylke Norway on Sunday, July 5, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (7/5/2009 UTC) at -- Et ukjent sted i Oslo in -- wild release somewhere in Oslo, Oslo fylke Norway
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
OK, so 'pretty soon' is obviously a relative term ... ;-)
This book will be released somewhere in Oslo Central Station this afternoon. Don't know where yet. Happy travels, little book!! :-)
OK, so 'pretty soon' is obviously a relative term ... ;-)
This book will be released somewhere in Oslo Central Station this afternoon. Don't know where yet. Happy travels, little book!! :-)
A good book. A fast book to read, and good action in there.
The end could have been better though. The end seemed a little unfinished.
But all over it was an O.K. book.
Releasing it in Ørsta (The next town to the one where i live, Volda.) at the airport, hope it will have a nice long trip.
The end could have been better though. The end seemed a little unfinished.
But all over it was an O.K. book.
Releasing it in Ørsta (The next town to the one where i live, Volda.) at the airport, hope it will have a nice long trip.
