I wasn’t much of a reader when I was younger, I was either out pucking a sliotar around a field or playing soldiers. The first book I ever bought myself was “Jaws”, I picked up a 2nd hand copy while on holidays in Strandhill many moons ago. It’s an absolute classic story and resulted in a classic film which frightened the bejaysus out of swimmers the world over back in 1974. The film was on tv here quite recently so I had to sit and watch it again, it’s lost none of it’s magic, it’s still a great film. I was therefore saddened to read of the death of Jaws author Peter Benchley, who died at his home in New Jersey yesterday at the young age of 65. Sad news.
Leave a comment
I remember it was one of my first books.
I was 8 or 9 and bought the book as soon it was on sale and I read it while on vacation…
I still have that copy…