Recent Reading: Sharks and more Sharks
One of the projects I’d like to work one, somewhere down the line, is essentially a deranged giant monster horror/thriller that should not exist. Since I’m primarily a fan of these in film form, rather than fiction, I set myself the task of reading a bunch of books that serve as an introduction to the form in a literary sense. The result was Shark Week. I kicked off with Steve Alten’s The Meg because a) I’d really enjoyed the recent film in all it’s goofy glory, and b) it had a surprising number of sequels, which immediately caught my eye as a researcher interested in series. The Meg in book form is a very different beast to the film. There are still giant sharks, of course, and plenty of people who get eaten along the way, but the character traits wrapped around the default archetypes are different enough to mean something. Our protagonist, Jonas Taylor, isn’t just a retired navy
