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The Deep

By: Peter Benchley
Narrated by: Mark Feuerstein
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A young couple go to Bermuda on their honeymoon. They dive on the reefs offshore, looking for the wreck of a sunken ship. What they find lures them into a strange and increasingly terrifying encounter with past and present, a struggle for salvage and survival along the floor of the sea, in the deep.©2009 BBC Audiobooks America; 1976 Peter Benchley Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Scary
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Exciting Adventure Tale • Engaging Treasure Hunt • Distinctive Character Voices • Compelling Sea Setting
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I thought good voice work was a recent thing,this book proved me wrong. Great story about some ocean diving and well performed.

Great Voice Work

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Being a fan of more the creature style stories like Jaws and White Shark, The Deep should have felt lacking but instead was excited and unexpected. Overall fun listen.

Not Jaws but still a great listen

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The story was OK but not as good as I thought it would be, considering how much I love Jaws. This book would’ve worked better as a novella or short story.

Good but not great

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I think we will all love Peter Benchley for his iconic work, Jaws, for all time. But this is a mediocre story at best, with a very abrupt and unsatisfying ending. For a forward looking back perspective of someone who did not grow up in the 50s/60s this is an interesting look into what would be considered main stream action in the day. I kept thinking the characters would be perfect in an Old Noire Hollywood movie. They were almost laughably stereotypical. The woman especially. Because they lack depth. If you like Benchley, read this for a peek into his mind, you can see glimmers of his fascination with sharks and the sea at large. Other than that, I'd pass. Oh the voice actor did an awesome job.

Not great.

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I think this was made into the movie “Into the Blue”? Or at least they are similar. Anyway…a good book with good narration. I didn’t care for the ending, as it left too many questions left unanswered. Was there a book 2? I’ll have to check.

Good book

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I loved this story. I remember the movie starring Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte, and Jacqueline Bisset. I really picture them as the characters in the story...especially Robert Shaw as Romer Treece! The narrator did an outstanding job with the Bermudian and Scottish voices! Great thriller, sea and treasure hunting story!

A very "Michael Crichton" type story!

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The Deep is a fantastic adventure tale, of mystery, scuba diving, treasure hunting, and intrigue. Someone said the story ended abruptly, which is true but very Peter Benchley-esque.

I really did not like the narrator. His Scottish accent sounded like Shrek and his female voice sounded oddly like Keanu Reeves.

Great Adventure Tale

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Jaws was certainly scary in it's images of a big fish, but this book captured my attention. I tried to listen every chance I got. The writing was good and the narration made it even better. I would recommend this book.

Better than Jaws!

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I enjoyed this story very much, had excitement all the way through it. Peter Benchley did a better job with this one then with Jaws.

The Deep

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I love jaws, I think Benchley has done some really awesome work, and I’m a big fan of the ocean and scuba diving, so the book started out really cool and exciting, but the more you get to know the characters, the less likable they become. Sanders is a pompous, barely competent jerk, and his wife is written to be airheaded, selfish, and overly sexual to the point where it’s just hard to take the story seriously when Benchley starts describing either of their personalities. About halfway into the story, it gets really hard to want to listen anymore. I guess it’s worth checking out while it’s included in your subscription, but I’d still say check something else out first. Also, the narrator made all of the locals in the story sound like weird pirates and laughing at that had me constantly losing any sense of immersion in the story.

It’s okay, kinda hard to get through after a while.

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