ONLY one more sentence to go and I'll finish the novel...

Jaws by the late Peter Benchley. That's RIGHT...ONLY ONE more sentence to go. I'm taking a short break of a day or more and then will get back to read that sentence and finish the book (for the second time as I read it back in the mid to late 70s, or early 80s after the release of the film). It's been so long since I've read it that I don't remember how it ends. Can hardly wait...Hooper has been dead around twenty pages ago. Both Quint and Bruce (Bruce is referred to as the shark or the Great White Shark in this, and not Bruce) are dead as well. Brody is the only one from the Orca still alive. Vaughn long time ago said goodbye to Ellen and has left the story. Unlike in the film were once the left the dock and stayed out the entire time...in the novel they go out in the morning and comeback in the evening each day. Just before the last day Meadows gave Brody a copy of an upcoming editorial which pleased Brody. It mentioned losing Hooper to the Great White Shark and that Brody was right and that the newspaper, mayor and town council were wrong about the shark attacks and the closing of the beaches.

Quint dies quite differently in this than in the movie. Instead of sliding down into Bruce's waiting mouth and jaws to be bitten in four (legs 2, midriff 1 and upper body 1) his foot and ankle get caught and he gets attached to the shark and drowns with him. Brody watches as they both go down into the depths of the ocean together. Now there's ONLY one more sentence for me to go. Once again the anticipation of how it will end is making me excited and thrilled. Can HARDLY WAIT!!!...