One of the books that I read maybe 4 times or more is Jaws by Peter Benchley. You have certainly seen the movie, its very old and yesterday I saw the Jaws 3 movie but I was half sleepy. Peter Benchley is dead saturday night at the age of 65. Jaws was the bestselling book on 1974 and we still hear about it until today. I have at home a very old copy of the book in french and there is a quote that I loved : “Le passé a souvent l’air plus beau que le présent, mais le présent n’est jamais aussi beau qu’il le sera plus tard.”
Peter Benchley, author of the 1974 bestselling novel which became the Steven Spielberg film of the same name, has died at the age of 65. He was suffering from a progressive and fatal scarring of the lungs and died on Saturday night at his home in Princeton, New Jersey.
While Benchley’s novel and Spielberg’s blockbuster movie succeeded in filling many with a sense of terror at the thought of sharks, Benchley himself was a lifelong advocate of shark conservation. “He cared very much about sharks. He spent most of his life trying to explain to people that if you are in the ocean, you’re in the shark’s territory, so it behoves you to take precautions,” explained his widow, Wendy Benchley.
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