White Shark

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Summary: Very scary book!!!!
Review: Intence!!!!!!

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Summary: uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
Review: Sharks and nazis, if there are two worse thingsin the world, I don't know what they are. I hate sharks, nazis, this book, the author, the publisher, and all of you sob's who read it. Well, actually it was okay, except of course for that shark, nazi, author, publisher, and all you freaken sob's.

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Summary: I belive that this book was written very well.
Review: This book was extremely suspenseful and kept me reading. I was unable to put down this book. I think that this book is good for anyone that loves the ocean or the creatures in it.

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Summary: a totally excellent book, he really outdid himself this time
Review: I loved the detail and the fact that he made it so interesting. The characters where great. he showed he was one of the best writers in history with this book.

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Summary: Undersea sci-fi horror written in the old Jaws formula.
Review: White Shark (or Creature) reads like Jaws meets the Terminator. It follows the predictable undersea killer formula: mysterious bodies are found, a marine killimng machine is discovered, etc. With this novel, Benchley does throw in a few twists, such as the creature's origin and amphibious nature, that make this more enjoyable than Beast

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Summary: White Shark is a frightningly realistic thriller.
Review: "White Shark" is a story of a man made terror created by an evil Nazi scientist made to attack and kill Americans along the eastern coast. Yet when the killer's submarine was atttacked and sank, the monster slept for fifty years at the bottom of the ocean. When a photographer opened his bronze casket however the horror was unleashed and he went in search of food to halt his dreadful hunger. On one of the nearby islands a man named Simon Chase lived and studied the ocean life on his private island. A man who studies sharks he was the first and only man to realize that something was wrong. When the beast struck out for Chase's Osprey Island, Simon was forced to face him. He tricked the evil creation of the devil's servants into a battle of wits. In his struggle he was forced to call upon all of his inovation skills, and survive by blind instinct.

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Summary: It was a page turning book that scared me out of my shoes
Review: I've never read a book as fast as I did this one. White shark brought back all the terror of Jaws and made me even more scared of the water. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who whats a good scare.

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Summary: If you love Science Fiction you will love White Shark
Review: White Shark was one of my first science fiction books and I loved it the entire way through. It was compelling and captivating. It was one of those books that you just can't put down.

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Summary: Um, are we all reading the same book?
Review: All right. We all know the plot--deadly sea-based creature slowly revealed through its carnage as it eats its way into the lives of the intrepid protagonist and his family until fully in view in act three, just before being heroically dispatched. It worked the first time, the second and it even works here fairly well. Suspension of disbelief this time around, however, is snapped in that moment of revelation. Contrary to what EVERYONE has been cluelessly reporting, the creature in question has nothing to do with genetic experiments. Nothing at all. Zero. Zip. Nada. The big DONUT. It's a psychotic killer surgically fitted with claws, teeth and gills. Not in stasis, no, not in some sort of suspended animation--again as has been offered by so many posts around here--not frozen in time, but living blissfully beneath two miles of Atlantic ocean happily dining on shrimp and littering the shells on the ocean floor. For FIFTY YEARS. FIFTY. YEARS. Unaware as to why he is there. Under pressure that would pulverize. Amid lethally cold temperatures. A sexually mutilated 75 year old man surgically slapped together with claws, teeth and gills. This is the creature. This is the killing machine. This is chum. Feed it to the fishes.

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Summary: Well written but lacking in creativity...
Review: WHITE SHARK is a thriller about a misguided Nazi experiment turned arwy, albeit a lot of their experiments were in the very least misguided. What ensues in the book many years after the fall of the Third Reich will keep the reader well involved in the plot and very eager to see what happens next. There are many well crafted uses of language in the book to keep suspense, as well as some slow areas so that suspense can be built. However, while this is a good book, it does come painfully close to playing on the same themes of some of Benchley's other works. He did not try to take the reader anywhere new with this book, and, while well written, it is mainly a fairly uninventive story.