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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 372595" data-attributes="member: 23">I&#039;m really glad you&#039;ve mentioned this because I had no idea there was a new book on this subject. I&#039;ve read Close To Shore and Twelve Days Of Terror many times each. The former book is probably similar to Silent Came The Monster: a linear telling of the events with some filling in of gaps here and there. It paints a very vivid picture of the time and place (with the war, the polio epidemic, etc.) as well as describing the events clearly. Twelve Days Of Terror is a truly fascinating read as it goes into much more analysis and forensic stuff, as well as diverging to discuss other similar series of shark attacks. I&#039;m sure I could be persuaded to read a fictionalised version. That said,&nbsp; I struggled with the 12 Days Of Terror film with its addition of the fictitious characters, so I couldn&#039;t guarantee I&#039;d love it. Yes, it&#039;s quite mind-boggling to think that experts were reassuring people that sharks&#039; jaws were too weak to bite a person, while the general public were believing the attacks to be a large cod (or something like that). People didn&#039;t even know whether or not a shark bite would contain venom, so there were all these myths floating about. These events really brought the idea of shark attacks into the public consciousness. I can relate. We don&#039;t really have any dangerous shark species on British coastlines (though with climate change influencing water temperatures and making marine animal migration far less predictable this could be changing) but it&#039;s still something that crosses my mind whenever I enter the ocean.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 372595, member: 23"] I'm really glad you've mentioned this because I had no idea there was a new book on this subject. I've read [I]Close To Shore[/I] and [I]Twelve Days Of Terror [/I]many times each. The former book is probably similar to [I]Silent Came The Monster:[/I] a linear telling of the events with some filling in of gaps here and there. It paints a very vivid picture of the time and place (with the war, the polio epidemic, etc.) as well as describing the events clearly. [I]Twelve Days Of Terror[/I] is a truly fascinating read as it goes into much more analysis and forensic stuff, as well as diverging to discuss other similar series of shark attacks. I'm sure I could be persuaded to read a fictionalised version. That said, I struggled with the [I]12 Days Of Terror[/I] film with its addition of the fictitious characters, so I couldn't guarantee I'd love it. Yes, it's quite mind-boggling to think that experts were reassuring people that sharks' jaws were too weak to bite a person, while the general public were believing the attacks to be a large cod (or something like that). People didn't even know whether or not a shark bite would contain venom, so there were all these myths floating about. These events really brought the idea of shark attacks into the public consciousness. I can relate. We don't really have any dangerous shark species on British coastlines (though with climate change influencing water temperatures and making marine animal migration far less predictable this could be changing) but it's still something that crosses my mind whenever I enter the ocean. [/QUOTE]

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