Title: Potboiling dreck
Review: Jaws the film was terrific entertainment by a filmmaker who knows how to entertain. Jaws the novel was an obvious by-the-numbers potboiler that wanted so badly to be a bestseller that Benchley stuffed sex and profanity into it even though it had no place in the story (see movie for proof) and merely stuck out like speed bumps in the plot's momentum. An awful, dreadful, amateurish book. If it had been a good book by a good writer, you'd have seen Benchley moving on to other things over the last few decades instead of rehashing the same old concept for maximum exploitation.
Is this product review negative?