Shark! Shark! Get out of the water!!! This book recounts the deadly shark attacks that took place along the east coast in the year 1916. Ladies and gentlemen these are the events that inspired both the novel and the film Jaws. 🦈 This book is very nearly poetically written in sentence structure but very matter-of-factly when presenting facts to the reader. And boy does it present a lot of facts! Folklore, scientific theories, facts that were later learned in years to come... you will read them all here in this book. Michael Capuzzo definitely did his research for this book!!! After reading this book I feel like an expert on the subject. In reading, the book goes back and forth between introducing things of the time and people essential to the story, but also following the culprit shark's conception, birth, adolescence, and journey up the coast. In essence this book is written like a well-written true crime novel with the shark playing the role of the killer. The well-rounded details drop you right into the middle of 1916 and put you right there at the grisly scenes of the horrible attacks. And there is great build-up to each of the attacks. I loved reading this book and reading about the actual true events that happened that inspired one of my all-time favorite films. It is a very horrible and bloody tale but it is a tale that needs to be told none the less. Capuzzo does an exceptional job with this. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject of sharks, history, film history, or even true crime.
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