Episode · The Book Review · 2025-06-13
Books mentioned on 50 Years After ‘Jaws’ Terrified Filmgoers, a Reporter Looks Back
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Jaws
Jaws by Peter Benchley is a suspenseful thriller novel about a giant man-eating great white shark that terrorizes a small summer resort town, sparking panic and conflict among local authorities.
Discussed“There's also when they republished Jaws last year, the Peter Benshley's novel, and maybe they did this in previous publications, but they included a lot of his papers from when he was developing the script, which I think are really interesting because I think he did really struggle to figure out how to turn his book into a movie.”
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The Jaws Log
The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb is a behind-the-scenes account detailing the chaotic and challenging production of the iconic 1975 blockbuster film.
Discussed“And then there's a very famous book that I know you have read, which is a book called The Jaws Log by Carl Gotautle, which I just read for the first time. Extremely entertaining. Carl got while working on Jaws apparently took the most detailed notes about every single day of production about writing. And it's probably one of the”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Day of the Jackal
“I mean, we're talking just after Frederick Forsight died and he wrote so many hit books, David Jackal and the Odessa file.”
Passing The Odessa file
“I mean, we're talking just after Frederick Forsight died and he wrote so many hit books, David Jackal and the Odessa file.”
Passing The Godfather
“and I do think again going to these 70s novels I think if you want to look at the godfather that's about 10 million things as well considering this is a book about a killer”
Passing Peyton Place
“I do think it would make for a pretty great or interesting TV miniseries. No one should ever do that. I'm not recommending anyone ever do that because all people are going to do is think of Steven Spielberg's movie, but there's a lot of rich stuff there and it's one of those big sprawling books like Salem's Live or”
Passing 'Salem's Lot
“I do think it would make for a pretty great or interesting TV miniseries. No one should ever do that. I'm not recommending anyone ever do that because all people are going to do is think of Steven Spielberg's movie, but there's a lot of rich stuff there and it's one of those big sprawling books like Salem's Live or”
Passing Red Dragon
“I love Manhunter, which like a man-made, which takes Red Dragon and gives it a new ending, which some people really don't like, but some people also absolutely know as the ending of Red Dragon.”
Passing Jaws
“Brian, thank you so much for coming on to talk about the 50th anniversary of Jaws by Peter Benshley, the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the alltime Steven Spielberg film.”