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Summary: The Beast was a great nail bitter of a story.
Review: This book was great.If you liked Jaws the movie or book or both,then read this one!It's just as good as Jaws,this one is about giant squid.
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Summary: dont go near the water.
Review: this is a great summer read. i read MEG before this and it outshines MEG in everyway. its fun, scary, entertaining and benchley pokes some fun at himself and JAWS. a great read.
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Summary: Exciting, but somewhat formulaic.
Review: This is an exciting adventure/horror book, but it is VERY similar to Benchley's better-known "Jaws"; in this book, the part of the shark is played by a giant squid. If you enjoy "Jaws", you'll probably enjoy this one, too, but wait a while after reading "Jaws" before you read this one, otherwise it will feel a bit TOO familiar. Granted, the elements have been shuffled a bit, a few new ones have been added, a few have been omitted. But the main framework is essentially the same.
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Summary: Makes you want to forget about that beach vacation.
Review: This is the first, and as yet only, Peter Benchley book I have read. It won't by any means be my last. This book made me want to keep reading, in a way I now wish I didn't, my fear of the ocean now goes far beyond that of a fear of jellyfish (a childhood incident). This book is truly a good read, it tells the story both from the point of view of the human characters but also the 'beast' itself, what drives it to do what it does and how it is that it has come to be in the situation that it is in. I give this book 4 Stars, I look forward to reading other Peter Benchley titles.
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Summary: Makes you want to forget about that beach vacation.
Review: This is the first, and as yet only, Peter Benchley book I have read. It won't by any means be my last. This book made me want to keep reading, in a way I now wish I didn't, my fear of the ocean now goes far beyond that of a fear of jellyfish (a childhood incident). This book is truly a good read, it tells the story both from the point of view of the human characters but also the 'beast' itself, what drives it to do what it does and how it is that it has come to be in the situation that it is in. I give this book 4 Stars, I look forward to reading other Peter Benchley titles.
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Summary: beast-- best book i've read( by benchley)
Review: What can I say? The story is smilar to jaws(ocean creature as problem) but has its own edge. Benchley uses the facts of the time to write a powerful novel abou a killer giant squid. Also, he has it in fished out waters, caused by trap fisherman. This basicaly says the squid has little to eat but whales and people.
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Summary: A Showmanship of Ego?
Review: When at first I relaxed in my recliner with a cup of Oolong tea fully prepared to enjoy one of Peter Benchley's novels I never suspected that the opposite could ever be true. After all, this is the same man that wrote "JAWS", right? But before long the unexpected ego trip Benchley echoes quite profusely in "BEAST" tends to sneak up on a person and bite them sorely in the rear. "BEAST"... How precisely does one describe it in one word or less besides just plain beastly? Easy - BORING! When Benchley isn't raving on inside his own novel about the immense success of his OTHER novel "JAWS" (which tends to be a LOT), he seems to be prompting us with unbelievably thin characters to go BUY it! "BEAST" seems to me like another attempt to recapture what all the movie industry's "JAWS" sequels didn't. Excitement, tension, the feeling that some horribly ancient, malevolent creature was about to burst out and attack from under my closet door. Not only does Benchley continuously rant and rave about his previous successes enough to make anyone else's ego do a double take (which is highly distracting considering the plot of "BEAST" already makes it easy enough to be distracted. Simply look away every time you yawn.), but the setting for the novel placing it squarely inside, of all thoroughly combed frontiers by other authors, the Bermuda Triangle tends to make the entire book predictable and cliché. My advice? Do what Benchley evidently is coaching you to do from the very onset of "BEAST" and go read "JAWS", if you haven't seen it already. Not only will you have a much more entertaining time but you won't have to bear the annoyingly incessant boasting the author seems to do at the end of every page. True he has a right, but do we really need to be reminded of it constantly? I know that's not what I spent $5.99 for!
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