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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8723629" data-attributes="member: 508">I finished White Shark and it was not a megalodon as I had imagined.&nbsp; But it was very well done, and I enjoyed it much better than I did Jaws (by the same author).Next up, I started Jumper: Griffin's Story by Steven Gould.&nbsp; This is a weird one, because his first novel was Jumper, about a boy who realized he could teleport at will, and he did a good job figuring out how that would work and what the consequences would be.&nbsp; Years later (after several other novels in between), he returned to the world of Jumper and wrote a sequel called Reflex (which wasn't as good, I thought).&nbsp; And then Hollywood got a hold of his works and fused the two into a movie called Jumper, which apparently took ideas from both books but was was way different.&nbsp; And then Steven Gould decided to write a novel that was based on the movie, so this is kind of a novelization of the movie which was based on his earlier works.&nbsp; I never saw the movie but at only a couple chapters in I can see this is way different than the original novels.&nbsp; I'm not expecting much, because I read Gould's first three novels and experienced diminishing returns with each (I still think his best novel was his first; the next two subsequent ones I enjoyed a little less than the previous ones), but I'm interested in seeing just how different this setup is.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8723629, member: 508"] I finished [I]White Shark[/I] and it was [I]not[/I] a megalodon as I had imagined. But it was very well done, and I enjoyed it much better than I did [I]Jaws[/I] (by the same author). Next up, I started [I]Jumper: Griffin's Story[/I] by Steven Gould. This is a weird one, because his first novel was [I]Jumper[/I], about a boy who realized he could teleport at will, and he did a good job figuring out how that would work and what the consequences would be. Years later (after several other novels in between), he returned to the world of [I]Jumper[/I] and wrote a sequel called [I]Reflex[/I] (which wasn't as good, I thought). And then Hollywood got a hold of his works and fused the two into a movie called [I]Jumper[/I], which apparently took ideas from both books but was was way different. And then Steven Gould decided to write a novel that was based on the movie, so this is kind of a novelization of the movie which was based on his earlier works. I never saw the movie but at only a couple chapters in I can see this is [I]way[/I] different than the original novels. I'm not expecting much, because I read Gould's first three novels and experienced diminishing returns with each (I still think his best novel was his first; the next two subsequent ones I enjoyed a little less than the previous ones), but I'm interested in seeing just how different this setup is. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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