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Summary: Greenie Ranting
Review: Well I read the whole book, even though it wasn't exactly what I was hoping it would be based upon my remembrance of reading 'Jaws'. In the novel 'Jaws' we are enfolded into the lives of several people and how they deal with a monster shark terrorizing a small town dependent upon tourism for their livelihood. Here, in 'White Shark', we are subjected to Benchley's ranting and raving and preaching about environmental issues, we are given cardboard characters that are predictable and a monster that is unbelievable science fiction.I guess the author thought that if he called a book 'White Shark' we the readers wouldn't mind if he substituted an evil monster fish man created by Nazi's at the end of World War Two. Opps, I spoiled the surprise, however, in my defense, the subject comes up in the first chapter. There is a great white shark in the book, however, she plays a secondary role and doesn't eat anyone. Benchley, I think, when he wrote this book, was still feeling some guilt about presenting sharks as evil when he wrote 'Jaws', however, I don't think he chose a good vehicle to preach his greenie beliefs and I don't think resorting to a Nazi bad guy is the best way to make sure you present a monster that can be killed off without offending anyone. I'm not sure how to rate this book, it was interesting enough to finish reading, however, I don't know what to characterize it as, and find it hard to rate in a certain category, which is usually how I rate things, how they stack up against other similar books. Because I can't exactly call it average, I'm going to go with a two star, but it may be a little bit better than that to those that enjoy this type of work.
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