{"id":6785,"date":"2025-01-08T22:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/finding-quint-by-robert-lautner-reader-dad-book-reviews\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:05:42","slug":"finding-quint-by-robert-lautner-reader-dad-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6785","title":{"rendered":"Finding Quint by Robert Lautner \u2013 Reader Dad \u2013 Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"


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QUINT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Lautner (robert-lautner.com<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a316.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I started Quint<\/em> around 2012. Yep. Seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t in shape to be submitted until 2013 and I had just finished writing The Road to Reckoning<\/em> which was due for publication in 2014, to be followed by The Draughtsman<\/em> in 2016. Two books under my belt.<\/p>\n

Quint<\/em> came about under a special circumstance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019d just moved to Wales with the intention of building our own cabin, just after our second son was born. My wife\u2019s parents lived there and were getting older so it made sense to be closer and we just couldn\u2019t afford to rent in Windsor any more.<\/p>\n

Building your own home sounds great but it was the hardest thing we\u2019d ever done in our lives. So much goes wrong that you\u2019re surprised when it doesn\u2019t. We were living in chaos and I only had an old laptop and a borrowed armchair to escape, to work on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It needed the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Somewhere in this I retreated to JAWS<\/em> as a comfort watch on the laptop, which I think it becomes to a lot of fans as we get older. As I was technically between books I began playing with the idea of writing, for myself, a story about Quint, a memoir, just as a therapy of sorts with all the shit around me. And it actually helped. It helped with all the nonsense and tribulations going on with the build. Every night I could put all the frustration of the day onto Quint and he could bury it on the page for me. But I was only writing it for me, there was no way it was for publication, the rights would never be attainable. And then, as the cabin was almost finished, I began to think about it as a possible future book and started to work on it seriously. After all, we were (then) coming up to the 40th<\/sup> anniversary of JAWS<\/em> and I thought that someone somewhere might think it was good timing. And I didn\u2019t want someone else to mess it up. I wanted it to be a literary treatment not a cash-grab, not something where the only spine was on the book, not in it. It needed the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.<\/p>\n

Miraculously the publisher got Wendy Benchley\u2019s permission (she had read and approved) and she owned the copyright for the character. All steam ahead, done and dusted. Then Universal heard about it.<\/p>\n

Long and short, lawyers from our side and Universal decided \u201cno\u201d was the way to go (lawyers love saying \u201cno\u201d) and it was all over. Quint<\/em> went back to being a book just for me.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a few years and, completely out of the blue, They<\/em> got in touch with Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Although there were still some legalities and territory restrictions, which some people probably got paid a lot of money to insist over, the gist is that the 50th<\/sup> anniversary was coming up and Universal decided that licences for JAWS<\/em> were a commodity they could ease up on the copyright of (hence you may have seen an ongoing up-tick in merchandise lately).<\/p>\n

What has surprised, and pleased me, with the novel\u2019s reception was how the \u201cliterary ventriloquism\u201d of voicing Quint has been so remarked upon, the authenticity of the character, as if Robert Shaw, as Quint, is performing<\/em> the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sleight of hand, of course, but the downside in the attempt to achieve this was that Quint began to inhabit my own personality and voice. I was not an easy person to be around, apparently, so I\u2019m told. I think I do this with all my protagonists but I suppose most are not as irascible or cynically commanding as Quint. I\u2019m not divorced at any rate and he\u2019s long gone now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So 2024 rolls around and I finally see Quint<\/em> in print, more than a decade after I first wrote him for myself. It didn\u2019t seem real after waiting so long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The weirdest thing is that I\u2019m now older than my 1968 Quint is in the story, I\u2019m older than Robert Shaw was in JAWS<\/em>, and in death. I wasn\u2019t when I wrote it. I\u2019ve outlived them both. I was a different person then, younger than both of them. Now they\u2019re behind me, I\u2019m behind me, but the book is falsely new, is fresh, its paperback ink yet to exist. I have salt and pepper flecks of grey in my hair and beard which weren\u2019t there back then, a boy who was a baby when I wrote it is as tall as me, can read his own copy of something written around him before he could talk. It\u2019s new and old at the same time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the strangest thing to hold a brand new old thing in your hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But if you asked me I bet I could, with a wink, still pull my cap down, give you a grin, and that same dulcet drawl would come rolling right back out again. Just with a bit more grey in it.<\/p>\n

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