The “great fish” in Jaws kills people, but it’s just doing what sharks do, simply exploring a newly-discovered aisle at the supermarket.

The ‘killer’ part is the real key, though – it’s certainly the part that disqualifies Jaws. The egotism of the victim species adamantly determines the dimensions of the attacker, so sharks have to be huge … in fact, considering the navel-gazing capacity of the human race, it’s a wonder nobody’s written a giant killer shark novel in which the fish has gold-plated teeth. That the shark be giant is absolutely de rigueur – despite the fact that some 90 percent of annual recorded shark attacks in the world involve fish smaller than basset hounds, such mishaps have zero dramatic potential. It has shrewd characterizations, multiple layers, and long evocative descriptive passages – in other words, in terms of giant killer shark novels, it wastes a lot of time.īecause the important category when dealing with giant killer shark novels is that whole ‘giant killer shark’ part. Benchley’s novel is actually a very smart, very urbane cautionary tale about human predators, about the voracity at the heart of human concupiscence. If this is true for bathos, how much more true must it be for bathyspheres, and so we come to what is perhaps the central question of modern hermeneutics: can a giant killer shark novel be good?In unraveling the ichthyologic etiology of such a query, you’d expect the ur-text to be Peter Benchley’s 1975 novel Jaws, but that isn’t quite right. It was the perennially underrated John Arbuthnot, so willingly lampooned in The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, who put it best: “The taste of the bathos is implanted by nature itself in the soul of man till, perverted by custom or example, he is taught, or rather compelled, to relish the sublime.” |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.Meg: Hell's Aquarium By Steve Alten Variance Publishing, 2009 |a Dubai (United Arab Emirates) |0 |v Fiction. |a Carcharocles megalodon |0 |v Fiction. |a David Taylor, the twenty-one-year-old son of Jonas Taylor, agrees to escort two of Angel's litter to Dubai, where a royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world, unaware that he is being set up to lead an expedition into the dangerous Panthalassa ocean hidden beneath the Philippine Sea Plate. |a 'Book four of the Meg series'-Dust jacket. |a 342 pages : |b illustrations, map |c 24 cm |a Meg : |b hell's aquarium / |c Steve Alten.

Meg hell's aquarium