{"id":7287,"date":"2025-01-08T22:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/quint-by-robert-lautner-reader-dad-book-reviews\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:08:47","slug":"quint-by-robert-lautner-reader-dad-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"QUINT by Robert Lautner \u2013 Reader Dad \u2013 Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3395\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/2024\/07\/24\/quint-by-robert-lautner\/61hd25rutpl-_ac_uf8941000_ql80_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"650,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"61hD25RuTpL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=195\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=650\" width=\"650\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3395\" style=\"width:412px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg 650w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=98 98w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61hd25rutpl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=195 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>QUINT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Lautner (<a href=\"https:\/\/robert-lautner.com\">robert-lautner.com<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Borough Press (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boroughpress.co.uk\">boroughpress.co.uk<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a316.99<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy a copy from <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/8219\/9780008647469\">your favourite independent bookshop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before he fished for shark off Massachussetts\u2019 Amity Island, Quint was a boat for hire on Florida\u2019s Merritt Island, taking daytrippers and too-rich college boys out sea-fishing; before that, he was in the US Navy, stationed on the\u00a0<em>USS Indianapolis<\/em>, where he learned more about sharks in five gruelling days than most men could stomach in a lifetime. When his third wife dies, Quint drives cross-country to California to re-enlist in the Navy, only to find himself flagged as unfit for active duty. Heading for Amity Island, he encounters the local fishermen and charter boats, finding something of a frosty reception. When he learns of a dead whale off the island\u2019s shore, Quint sets out under cover of darkness to tow it to the area he has claimed for himself, a task made nigh on impossible by the sharks that are feeding on it. As he battles these prehistoric creatures for the rotting meat that he believes will make him his fortune, he remembers the last time he encountered sharks in such numbers, and in such close proximity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Y\u2019all know me. Know how I earn a livin\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Steven Spielberg\u2019s\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>\u00a0is one of those films that has become part of our global consciousness in the fifty years since its cinematic release: everyone has seen it, or has a vague idea of what it\u2019s about. Who can\u2019t quote Roy Scheider\u2019s infamous line about a bigger boat, or hum the few bars that make up John Williams\u2019 iconic cello theme? Central to the story is Robert Shaw\u2019s fantastic depiction of gruff and rough fisherman, Quint, a man who makes a living fishing for sharks, despite his history with them, a history that we learn halfway through the film in a drunken night scene on his boat, the\u00a0<em>Orca<\/em>, where the three main characters compare old wounds and the stories behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Lautner\u2019s latest novel, as we might be able to deduce from the title, sets out to examine the background of this colourful character in more detail. The manuscript, we\u2019re told by Amity\u2019s mayor Larry Vaughn, who has taken ownership of Quint\u2019s estate, was written around 1968, at his best guess, putting it around six or seven years before the events of Spielberg\u2019s film. Starting in Florida, we find Quint chartering his lobster boat,\u00a0<em>Akron<\/em>, to people keen to catch more than just fish. When his third wife dies, and nothing is left to tie him to Merritt, he decides to move on and eventually finds himself in Massachussetts, where he tries to set out his stall on the wealthy holiday island of Amity. Butting heads with the local charterers, led by Ben Gardner, Quint stakes his claim to an area ten miles off the island\u2019s coast and plans to have a group out on the water as soon as he can, the next day if possible. News of a dead whale out on the water sees him taking\u00a0<em>Akron<\/em>\u00a0out under cover of darkness, where he means to rope up the whale and pull it to his own area, knowing that it will draw sharks and give his customers a good show. It\u2019s not quite as easy as he\u2019d hoped and, as he battles with the sharks who want to stop him stealing their dinner, he remembers back to the last days of his war, where he spent five long days in the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by sharks of all shapes and sizes, watching and waiting as they picked off his crewmates one by one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sam_quint.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3399\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/2024\/07\/24\/quint-by-robert-lautner\/sam_quint\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sam_quint.webp\" data-orig-size=\"242,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sam_quint\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sam_quint.webp?w=202\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sam_quint.webp?w=242\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"242\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sam_quint.webp?w=242\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sam_quint.webp 242w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sam_quint.webp?w=101 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lautner\u2019s greatest success here is in how well he captures the voice of his central character. He tells the story through the eyes of Quint, putting us in the man\u2019s head and perfectly capturing the speech patterms and tone of voice made famous by Robert Shaw. From the outset, we feel like we\u2019re in the presence of an old friend, a man who may be rough and ready, but who we\u2019ve known since forever, many of us since our misspent childhoods (the film is about five months older than me, so when I say I grew up watching it, I mean it quite literally). Lautner, through Quint\u2019s voice, immerses us in a world we know all-too-well, and puts us on the blood-slippery decks of the\u00a0<em>Akron<\/em>\u00a0as his protagonist does battle with literal monsters. Here he develops a theme that is touched upon briefly in Spielberg\u2019s film \u2013 and to a greater degree in Peter Benchley\u2019s original novel \u2013 showing us that while Quint has a healthy fear of the creatures he hunts, he ascribes no special powers or malign intelligence to them. In stark contrast to Chief Martin Brody and even scientist Matt Hooper, Quint\u2019s mantra is that they are \u201cjust fish\u201d and constantly berates himself to stop anthropomorphising them, or projecting human intelligence and emotions onto them. It is perhaps this, more than anything, that keeps Quint alive long enough to meet the giant great white that terrorises the Amity beaches during 1975\u2019s July 4th weekend; during the course of trying to move the dead whale, he finds himself in the water with them on more than one occasion. His ability to keep his head and remain calm is what gets him back into the boat and relative safety.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Y\u2019know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin\u2019 for my turn. I\u2019ll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.\u00a0Anyway\u2026 we delivered the bomb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a brave move, Lautner decides to \u201cbreak up\u201d the tension of Quint\u2019s nighttime adventure by digging deeper into the biggest disaster in US Naval history at the time, the sinking of the\u00a0<em>USS Indianapolis<\/em>, the description of which is one of Robert Shaw\u2019s finest moments onscreen. As the author himself notes in his afterword, he wanted to do justice to the story and to the real-life sailors who were involved. The result of the research and careful approach to telling Quint\u2019s story in more detail, is a surface-eye view of one man \u2013 one of eleven hundred \u2013 who has been unceremoniously dumped in the ocean when a Japanese submarine torpedoed and sank the ship he was on. He tells of the oil slick that probably saved many of the men from burning up in the relentless sun, and of the clear water through which the men could see hundreds of sharks just below the surface, waiting for the most opportune moment to pick off the weakest of the pack. It is a harrowing and gut-wrenching story, a tale of horror that constantly catches us by surprise. And every time we think Quint has reached the end of his recollection, we find ourselves treading water with him again after a brief visit back to his present day, and awaiting the next horror, one more level of hell. No matter how detailed the story, we can never imagine being left alone in those waters for five days and nights, but\u00a0<em>Quint<\/em>\u00a0goes some way towards helping us understand.\u00a0Lautner does the story justice, but he also rips the reader out of our comfort zone and drops us into the middle of the most terrible thing we\u2019ll ever witness.<\/p>\n<p>Lautner intersperses each chapter with brief excerpts from Carlo Collodi\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Adventures of Pinocchio<\/em>, partly because it\u2019s the one book Quint remembers reading as a child; partly because he saw the Disney film at the theatre with his first wife; and partly because, contrary to popular belief, Pinocchio found himself in the belly of a shark (not a whale) during his adventures. As Quint himself might say, \u201cLook it up.\u201d It\u2019s an interesting \u2013 and somewhat strange \u2013 juxtaposition with a man who would be the last person on earth you might associate with the little marionette, especially in his Walt Disney incarnation, but does make us wonder which of the puppet\u2019s many attributes have helped to shape the man that Quint has become. What\u2019s interesting is that, throughout the book, and even into Spielberg\u2019s\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>, the shark is always portrayed as a mindless animal looking for its next meal. Neither Lautner nor Spielberg ascribe any human traits to these creatures; the sense we get that they are somehow evil comes from within ourselves and any intentional violence that\u2019s carried out is carried out by so-called humanity and not by the fish.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Robert Lautner\u2019s\u00a0<em>Quint<\/em>\u00a0is nothing less than a masterpiece. Coming in at under just 300 pages, it\u2019s as intense a story as you\u2019re ever likely to encounter, with not a single wasted word. We find ourselves in Quint\u2019s head from the opening pages (Lautner even manages to capture the voice of Mayor Larry Vaughn in his short introductory piece). It\u2019s a chance to finally understand what makes this iconic character tick and Lautner does a brilliant job of keeping us engaged and making us care for a man who so obviously dislikes the company of other people. Between 1968 and the flashbacks to 1945, we see the beginnings of the character we will eventually encounter on the big screen, and the key events that have made him the man he will ultimately become. Lautner has an obvious love for the character and for the source material and it shines through in his narrative, and his attention to detail. Like many people my age, I grew up watching\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>\u00a0for the giant shark. As I\u2019ve grown older, repeated viewings have gradually taught me that the film isn\u2019t about the shark at all; the shark is just a device to get Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Quint out onto the water. The developing relationship between these three men is where the real story is. Reading Benchley\u2019s original novel later in life has reinforced this evolving view and Robert Lautner\u2019s\u00a0<em>Quint<\/em>\u00a0lets us into the secret world of perhaps the most interesting person in the\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>universe. For almost 300 pages we find ourselves on the blood-slippery deck of the most famous lobster boat in cinema, watching a master at work. If you\u2019ve ever enjoyed\u00a0the Spielberg movie that gave birth to the summer blockbuster, then this is the story for you. Even if you haven\u2019t seen\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em>, this is the perfect opportunity. Give the film a watch (take a pillow to hide behind if you\u2019re that way inclined), then dive into this wonderful character study: the book stands well enough on its own, but is a much richer experience when read while the film is fresh in the reader\u2019s mind. I\u2019ll be waiting eagerly to see what Lautner comes up with next, and digging out his back catalogue while I wait. 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