Before it was a
movie,
Jaws was a
novel, written by
Peter Benchley, and
published in
1974. It's a really good read, if you ask me. Pretty suspenseful, even without the
creepy theme music.
This is the quotation at the beginning of the book:
"Carcharodon carcharias, the White Death Shark, is the fiercest and more fearsome predator on earth. Growing to a length of more than thirty feet, always on the prowl and always hungry, it will attack anything that appears even remotely edible. The stomach contents of one such shark, caught off the coast of Australia, included a pair of gum boots, a keg of roofing nails, and half a horse."
-Robert F. Jones, Washington Post