Peter Benchley's Jaws (2018) read by Henry Goodman

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Ten years after a serialised reading of Jaws was broadcast on BBC7, Radio 4 decided to make the book their Book At Bedtime for two weeks in August. At the end of the fortnight, all ten episodes were combined into a two-and-half hour omnibus broadcast on the Saturday afternoon. I sincerely hope somebody somewhere listened to it while lying on the beach...
Anyway, I recently posted the 2008 version. Here's the longer 2018 version. Henry Goodman's reading is excellent, and John Williams's original film music is used to punctuate the story. I think both readings have their different merits, but this particular one is nearly twice as long and therefore significantly less abridged. Happy listening!
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@user-lf2nd5xj6w 2 ай бұрын

Like most kids of the 80s watching this movie scared he life outta me and have always been and still am nervous of the open water and what lies beneath, for some reason I've been getting the extras videos on my KZbin pop ups and have always wanted to read the book to compare but never found the time, I'm so glad I had the thought of looking for this book reading so I'm really enjoying this so far, thank you KZbin.

@ThatRailwayEngineer 2 ай бұрын

The book is much better than the film and really builds each character. The film is a classic, but it makes everything look like it happens over a week. The book talks about month long hunts

@user-lf2nd5xj6w 2 ай бұрын

@@ThatRailwayEngineer it's amazing when watching the making of the fact that the shark never worked that it changed the way they filmed it with filming being level with the water and hardly any shark time is what made the movie what it is and I've gotta say that 80% of the fear comes from the amazing music, I can't think of another horror movie using the music so effectively like Jaws, and to put a real life ww2 story in just genius, the only bad side I can say was the hunting and decline on the shark population especially great whites, when you see documentaries on them they are amazing creatures and was because of Jaws I wanted to learn about them, and I'm glad I did.

@ThatRailwayEngineer 2 ай бұрын

@@user-lf2nd5xj6w I absolutely agree that what Stephen Spielberg did with this book was revolutionary for the film industry. Not just on a story or quality level, but the way we look at filmography as a whole. It’s still a movie I watch to this day because I love it. However, the book goes into the detail than the film doesn’t. It gives us a story behind and way from the terror of the shark, a reason the mayor doesn’t want the beaches closed. It shows the corrupt politicians and the government ties with gangs and mobs. It’s not just about the shark and that’s what I like about it. It gives the characters depth that they need. It’s a classic film with a boom at the end. But so much was cut out for the film that when I read the novel, I couldn’t keep going back to the film for reference. I had to imagine it as an alternative universe away from the film because it was so detailed. Even that first part describing Christy, when I first read ‘the nub of bone and tattered flesh’, my mind instantly created this image I had never seen before, and I felt sick in the pit of my stomach. That’s how powerful Peter Benchley’s words are.

@user-lf2nd5xj6w 2 ай бұрын

@@ThatRailwayEngineer some of the figures for the movie were amazing, 1st movie to break 100mill dollars until ET so he broke his own record then it stayed in cinemas for a year, your lucky if a movie is in cinemas for a couple of weeks now.

@robertanderson9375 Ай бұрын

@@ThatRailwayEngineerjust nonsense. The book was good, but the characters were all corrupt and unlikeable. Brody was like a man on the outside looking in. Quint was a despicable man, not the colorful survivor of the Indianapolis tragedy. He killed every animal he encountered often for laughs. He killed small sharks slitting their bellies for entertainment. He killed a female dolphin for chum and used her unborn as "special bait". They found him in the phone book. Hooper was an arrogant snotbag. Ellen was a depressed infidel who blamed Brody for her own shortcomings. The mayor used a loan from loan sharks who twisted Brodys son is cat to make a point to Brody. Finally, the ending of Quint and the Shark are lackluster. Quint drowns with his foot tangled in a rope and the Shark just dies from exhaustion. The movie was a thriller and an adventure that played perfectly for the audience.

@marissadaily619 Жыл бұрын

I listened to this while on the beach … perfect listening

@lilfloat2973 Жыл бұрын

Perfect for Shark Week

@danl2136 Жыл бұрын

Best place 😊

@HG.APP78 11 ай бұрын

The sort of thing I do,then flinch if a bit of weed touches me in the water 😂😂

@michaelspinks9703 11 ай бұрын

Twisted

@Fotosynthesis858 11 ай бұрын

When I was a kid, this book made so scared of the water that I was even scared of taking baths 🫣

@JohannaLeigh 6 ай бұрын

Amazing. You'd ever believe you were listening to the same person. Especially if you go from hearing him as Fagin and then listen to him as Morton Rainey! I'm sure there's more than one Henry Goodman, but not in the same profession. This guy is GOOD! And of course hearing that epic score in the background doesn't hurt the mood...unless you need to go to the bathroom.🦈

@jeanettesdaughter 9 ай бұрын

I love the sound effects, the feeling of vast ocean, of water and surf. Lulled me right to sleep. Slept straight through the blood letting … absorbed by the sea. Fascinating. ❤

@ellenmendoza7246 10 ай бұрын

This excellent..very good story telling..beautiful read

@ascott4606 Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite books, thanks for uploading.

@JohannaLeigh 6 ай бұрын

Henry Goodman.... a familiar name to audio drama. I have heard him as Fagin in Focus on the Family's version of OLIVER TWIST as well as *The Hiding Place* . He also played Morton Rainey in Stephen King's *Secret Window Secret Garden* . LOVE that epic score played low in the background.

@mysteriousmagpie 6 ай бұрын

I've not heard his Fagin, but I certainly trust him as an actor so I'm sure he's great in the role. In the UK he's... well, if not a household name then a very familiar face from many, many television credits over the years, in every genre. He's played quite a few American characters so I assume his accent must be credible...

@stevehill934 4 ай бұрын

listened to this while beaching on the grand strand. i kid you not it was quite late and during the introduction of the shark a huge splash happened just off shore that made me jump...abit later into the audiobook where the shark comes at quint a dorsal broke the surface and although very cool to see, the timing was spooky and added to an already intense ambience. a night ill never forget. went to a marina a day later and they mentioned and put into perspective how between each pier we see theres atleast 200 sharks swimming between them. something that was cool but terrifying to hear as of course it stays in your head while your out in the water. never realized(i know were in ocean so should be common sense) just how much we really interact with them on a regular basis.

@mysteriousmagpie 4 ай бұрын

The ultimate interactive audio experience..! Actually, you say about not realising how often we interact with sharks etc - thanks to drone cameras there's now a lot of amateur footage taken of sharks, including really big sharks, noticing surfers and having a look and then just losing interest and swimming away - but without the surfer having any idea this has happened. It does give a sense of how rarely sharks are actually interested in people, and supports the idea that a lot of the attacks that do happen are 'mistakes'.

@myheadhurts1927 Жыл бұрын

Well done. An excellent variation on the tale.

@angelapennock2639 Жыл бұрын

Excellently read!

@Joshua24fan 6 ай бұрын

Love this reading. I'm assuming this is abridged version of book?

@mysteriousmagpie 6 ай бұрын

Inevitably, yes - I'm pretty sure the whole book would be at least twice as long. This reading was originally a serialised reading broadcast late at night on BBC radio, then they bundled it all together and broadcast it all on a Summer Saturday afternoon, presumably so people could listen to it at the beach...

@luarvikluarvik4276 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful reading, you really made the characters come to life.

@mysteriousmagpie Жыл бұрын

Thank you - but all credit must go to Henry Goodman, the veteran British actor who performed this reading for BBC Radio 4...

@keithgragg2296 Жыл бұрын

One of the best without reading the entire book

@josiahthibodeaux 10 ай бұрын

I usually stay away from abridged books but this was an excellent sample.

@bushidowarrior4917 6 ай бұрын

WOW!!!! Better than the movie.. Thank you..

@johnolmos8670 3 ай бұрын

I love the narrator

@WULDORI 4 ай бұрын

this is abridged, just so everyone knows

@manusha1349 16 күн бұрын

Ahhh the brilliant, memorable movies of the 70s and 80s! Will never forget how Jaws got into the general consciousness, even 45 years later, it's still one of the most entertaining summer movies to watch! Other unforgettable movies of the time, like King Kong, Superman, Alien etc still classics. Watched Body Heat recently and loved it as much as the first time! So sad that we've lost Hollywood to the new cultural zeitgeist of "woke" ....

@WolfShadowwhisper Жыл бұрын

You, sir, madam or other. Kept you promise. Thank you so much for sharing this. I will devour this later today. I promise to return to tell you how I enjoyed it. It is only fair, since you promised to share this with us.

@mysteriousmagpie Жыл бұрын

Hope you have fun with it! Om nom nom...

@WolfShadowwhisper Жыл бұрын

@@mysteriousmagpie I am sure I will. Sadly my sister pitched up with monster energy drinks, chocolate pizzas from pizza hut and werewolf movies, but when she is gone it is Jaws time :D

@WolfShadowwhisper Жыл бұрын

@@mysteriousmagpie Oh wow, so much better than the other audio book. The music teases the imaginations of the listener. I love this.

@mysteriousmagpie Жыл бұрын

@@WolfShadowwhisper Glad to hear it! I do think it's better than the first one (though I do like that first one) and it's amazing the life a few sound effects and a little music can add to a reading...

@WolfShadowwhisper Жыл бұрын

@@mysteriousmagpie Absolutely, music and sound effects goes a long way. I have to say, I love both versions myslf

@stfjesusfreak Жыл бұрын

Read the book twice, got better each time; another read is on the docket.

@robertanderson9375 Ай бұрын

That's cool. The book went downhill for me after the first time in 1975. As an adult I realized the book was a Peyton Place exposed by a shark, the movie was a multi- tiered event. A thriller, a horror movie, and a high sea adventure, all in one flick. Just a gem of film making.

@richardrichard5409 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff many thanks.

@mattsmoviemagic8123 Жыл бұрын

Man, and I thought the mayor in the film was bad.

@chrissavage600 Жыл бұрын

Jaws the movie: Don’t trust these sharks Jaws the book: Don’t trust these hoes

@magnuskallas 11 ай бұрын

Someone said it is good they left out the affair out from the film. I agree. With the affair thing going, I couldn't help but to think of Stephen King's Cujo (another animal monster "feature"), where the affair thing was much more hard hitting. Though I understand Cujo was written, and filmed some years later. Also, I think I liked Quint better on the screen...

@Etäinshewölf007 11 ай бұрын

@@magnuskallasI personally prefer the book version though I thought it went on a lot longer than this one but Mat get’s a well deserved ending in the book

@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376 9 ай бұрын

@@magnuskallas Yeah if they had used it it would've given the movie a bad rating and no one would like the movie version if it happened.

@jeanettesdaughter 9 ай бұрын

Crass remark . Unbecoming!

@colonelkurtz4452 2 ай бұрын

Great narration this is very good

@aaroncicanese 11 ай бұрын

This is the best narrated audio book I’ve ever heard, glad the movie didn’t follow the narrative of Ellen’s affair,

@jeanettesdaughter 9 ай бұрын

Made the story more interesting actually and the brief encounter was realistically initiated by Ellen. I thought that was n unconventional. Almost wholesome. Lost youth. 21 is very young to marry after a few months courtship and apparently she dropped out of Wellesley. It happens. The shark was Brodies nemesis- but Ellen’s indiscretion was a shock to the system and just as threatening. Spielberg knew his audience and what the culture could tolerate in a blockbuster featuring an ordinary guy ( like himself!) turned hero.

@JohannaLeigh 6 ай бұрын

I heard Steven Spielberg wanted a happily married couple and a straight up sea adventure. Oy! That Meadows. If he fed himself to the shark, the shark would be chewing for most of the summer and save the rest of the swimmers.

@JohannaLeigh Ай бұрын

*"You go into the cage. Cage goes into the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark...*" 🎵 Farewell and Adeiu to you, fair Spanish Ladies....🎶 For the end, *"Smile you s.o.b!"* (BOOM!) was better by a long shot.

@dso4594 Жыл бұрын

So good!!!

@Alex.1739 10 ай бұрын

Superb ty

@bbbl8910 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@cynthiaberesiri2253 Жыл бұрын

...if that doesn't work, you can tickle him to death. 🤣🤣🤣

@robertanderson9375 Ай бұрын

"At this point if someone came in here and said he was Superman and he could piss that shark away from here, I'd say fine and dandy. I'd even hold his dick for him" Chief Brody when Hooper criticized his decision to hire Quint, who was found in the phonebook. Quint had no grand entrance like in the movie. He also was an asshole who killed every animal he encountered including a mother dolphin and her unborn baby. Despicable.

@stevehill934 4 ай бұрын

spielberg took out the affair/mob tie from the book as he realized it would change the film in making us root for the shark....he was right.

@WULDORI 4 ай бұрын

Really? I can understand wanting the shark to eat Hooper but why would Larry’s mob ties make us root for the shark

@stevehill934 4 ай бұрын

@@WULDORI i think hes meaning more of a sense of theres so much negativity coming from these characters as theyre all doing bad things therefore throughout the story you dislike them and rooting for the shark(not sad to see them get theirs) kind of thing by the sounds of it.

@enigma7784 2 ай бұрын

A genius decision on Spielberg's part

@robertanderson9375 Ай бұрын

@@stevehill934yep, the book has a cast of assholes. Hooper was a arrogant snotnosed rich kid. Quint was despicable. Not colorful at all. Ellen Brody was a depressed cheat who blamed Brody for her decisions. The book is about a town of corrupt people who are exposed by a couple of shark attacks. The movie is a thriller, horror movie, then a high sea adventure all in one. The book is okay, the movie is a timeless gem.

@JohannaLeigh Ай бұрын

$$$ issues force Vaughn to WANT the beaches open so the town can make the money he needs to keep the mob off his case.@@WULDORI

@eblackadder3 3 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this, I only wish it wasn't abridged.

@WoodenRailwayWonderland 2 ай бұрын

Anyone know where this piece of music is from? Is it from the jaws soundtrack or something else or completely original for this audio book 2:44- 3:13

@mysteriousmagpie 2 ай бұрын

I'm pretty confident that it's from the John Williams score, but haven't been able to identify the track. However, the three-note motif and the plucked harp is something that appears elsewhere in the Jaws score - in particular the harp notes suggest that it's from one of the sequences that take place at night. The radio show that carried this reading is low-budget and never has musical specially composed for it, so I'd bet on it being from the film soundtrack... sadly it might take a close listen to the whole score to find that extract though...

@JohannaLeigh Ай бұрын

*"WHEN MONEY SPEAKS, THE TRUTH IS SILENCED"* The mayor is putting his career and immediate $$$ issues ahead of the safety of the people who will make or break Amity's summer. How tragically ironic is that?😢

@howwwwwyyyyy 9 ай бұрын

Pity that all the adverts spoil this

@mysteriousmagpie 9 ай бұрын

Not a lot to be done about that, sadly - except to cut all of the music out and then there'd be big silent gaps... the copyright holder gets their dues if I leave the programme intact (and to be clear, I don't get a penny).

@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376 9 ай бұрын

I prefer the movie version as it's way better and if the subplot was kept the movie version would've been hated

@asteroidthefurrysuperhero5989 8 ай бұрын

1:43:46 bookmark

@mattsmoviemagic8123 Жыл бұрын

did this video condense the whole book into selected segments?

@mysteriousmagpie Жыл бұрын

KInd of. It's an abridged reading that was originally broadcast on the BBC in ten daily episodes, and then as a single omnibus on a Saturday afternoon. This is that omnibus broadcast - though I expect you noticed the little breaks between episodes despite it being edited together.

@jonlong5632 Ай бұрын

What is a " Poor-poise " ? 😂👍

@rmmccarthy1240 Жыл бұрын

Annotated -but a strong performance.

@stewartlancaster6155 6 ай бұрын

abridged you mean

@rmmccarthy1240 6 ай бұрын

@@stewartlancaster6155 I did, indeed! 😬Thanks for the feedback👍

@shannongillespie7974 10 ай бұрын

Too many adds

@mysteriousmagpie 10 ай бұрын

Beyond my control, I'm afraid - the channel isn't monetised but yt puts ads in to compensate copyright holders where an upload includes music theyve okayed for use.

@stewartlancaster6155 6 ай бұрын

ads not adds, it is a contraction of advert, hence only one letter d.

@calamazomcdonald3688 Жыл бұрын

1:34:15

@jjb1908 9 ай бұрын

This book stinks. I wanted the shark to win. The ending death is so anti climactic. This is a rare case where the movie is better than the book

@matthazelby506 2 ай бұрын

Terrible book,great film.

@ThatRailwayEngineer 2 ай бұрын

Shut the hell up.

@JohannaLeigh Ай бұрын

Not a terrible book, but it didn't give us too many characters to like, apart from Brody. In the movie, at least Brody and Ellen were happily married. Brilliant performance by Henry Goodman!

@pixiepower9194 8 ай бұрын

I had to stop listening because of the annoying endless😢 commercial interruptions!

@mysteriousmagpie 8 ай бұрын

Completely beyond my control, I'm afraid. YT puts those in because of the music, to compensate the copyright holder. The alternative is to have big gaps of silence in place of the music. I've opted to keep the music in, figuring that listeners can probably find out about ad blockers, or the various means available to watch a youtube video without constant advert interruptions.