People who have read the book Jaws after they saw the movie always assume that the book is worse than the movie. But people who read the book before they saw the movie liked the book for its own sake. The movie is a completely different product. The book was written as a morality story about corruption in a small town and karmic retribution in the form of a killer shark. It was never really a "horror story", in the convention sense, even though the publishers marketed it as such. Comparing the two is an exercise in futility.
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