Horror Book # 34 Jaws by Peter Benchley

 

The film Jaws is an all time classic. The book not so much. Literally all the best scenes from the film aren't even in the novel. And then the book has subplots not in the movie that 1) make some of the characters quite unlikable and 2) aren't even resolved in the end! They aren't even about the shark. I think a novelization of the film done afterwards would be better than the actual book. C+

Book # 157 - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Well it has now been 10 years since we started this blog and this will be the 312th book that I've read in that time. I've finished the initial task of reading 100 of the greatest novels of all time but there are still so many books out there! Anyway....

So yeah, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I was looking forward to reading this since I enjoyed The Road so long ago, but this book is pretty brutal. When I had read that it was considered "unfilmable" because it was so violent I thought "really, is that possible?" and now I see that yeah, it kind of is. I see the merit in the book and what I'm guessing is a commentary on America's past but at some point it is all just too much. B