As a kid growing up in the 1970s, I saw my share of movies that scarred my tender psyche. For example, I learned at an early age to avoid garbage trucks with front loaders.
That little boy who made very bad things happen scared the bejesus out of me. And then there was Steven Spielberg's first blockbuster. Decades later, that one still haunts summer beach days. But Hollywood is not the only reason why Juliet Eilperin's new book is called Demon Fish. She writes:
Humans--regardless of their culture, era, or geographic location--have been been fascinated with sharks form the beginning of time. They predate us by so many hundreds of millions of years but are a remote cohabitant of this earth rather than a familiar one. Sharks were swimming our seas before the continents took to their current shape, when oceans covered Bolivia, South Africa, and Montana. Despite their considerable ...
