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Jaws
- Peter Benchley, Jaws
I have been told many, many times that I write long reviews. That’s my style, and I’m sticking with it. But I’m willing to experiment. Accordingly, I decided to try a little writing exercise. Instead of explaining myself, I’m going the Twitter route. No explanations! Only conclusions!
So, without further ado, here is my four word review of Jaws: Just watch the movie.
Helpful? Not really? Okay. Let’s try this. I will do a two sentence review (though it will also have only four words): Less talk. More chomp.
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Still here? All right, I have a few things to add.
First, I have to say upfront that discussing Peter Benchley’s novel is impossible without re
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The Day of Forever
jg ballard author of the drowned world is the most exciting discovery in british post-war fiction
these ten stories mostly mainstream sf/fantasy date from a relatively early period in his career – characterised by their wit and forcefulness of invention they serve as a perfect introduction to Ballard’s strange obsessional world (and also furnish an invaluable key to his later more experimental writing)
time and space become dislocated as in some lsd nightmare; a man watches and waits over the vast immortality-echoing horizons of an alien planet; a woman, enigmatic and beautiful, stands on a cliff, jewelled madonna of the booming sea below – out of the cryptic consciousness of modern man ballard creates landscapes as haunting and valid as Dali’s duned deserts or Max Ernst’s silently screaming forests
here is ballard beginning…’
blurb to 1967 panther edition
The Day of Forever • ss The Impossible Man, Berkley, 1966
Prisoner of the Coral Deep • ss Argosy (UK) Mar '64; New Worlds May '65
Tomorrow Is a Million Years • ss Argosy (UK) Oct '66
The Man on the 99th Floor • ss New Worlds Jul '62
The Waiting Grounds • nv New Worlds Nov '59
The Last World of Mr. Goddard • ss Science-Fantasy #43 '60
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