Title: The exception that proves the rule.
Review: If you are like me and loved the movie and were hoping to get a more fleshed-out version from the book you will be sadly disappointed. All I can say is Spielberg did a hell of a job if this is what he had to work with. The book has NONE of the magic from the film. I was hard-pressed to find anyone to like in the story and found myself rooting for the shark to hurry up and eat EVERYONE. There was nothing likable about anyone, no clever back and forth oneupmanship between Quint and Hooper, no Quint charm with his off-color songs or catch phrases, no real suspense or climax, ridiculous plot tangents involving love stories and organized crime. Pages and pages of filler that had nothing to do with anything. This is a glowing example of the exception that proves the rule that the book is always better than the movie. Skip this and pop the movie in again instead.
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