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The Fisherman

John Langan

Start date: April 1, 2022

Finish date: April 30, 2022

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Jul 14, 2025 Theresa (mysteries.and.mayhem) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

For the most part, I was fascinated by The Fisherman. I sank into the story so easily. And then when it came time for the origin story, I was completely won over. The atmospheric writing was spot on. I hung on every word, sentence, paragraph.

Unfortunately, I felt the book lost a little of its magic when I was ushered out of the rich backstory back into the modern-day world of Abe and Dan. I had to take a full 24 hours away from the book to will myself to go on. Some of the atmospheric writing re ...more

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Jul 11, 2025 Richard Alex Jenkins rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, thriller, supernatural, fantasy, cosmic-horror

This is an amazing book and I disagree with anyone who says it's not well written.

Cormac McCarthy also writes 'horribly' and I have no problem with him at all.

You'll appreciate this book if you can relate to personal loss, and that's not a signpost above my head to say I've experienced something that you maybe haven't, just the way I feel about this book.

The funny thing is, I'm not usually a fan of cosmic horror and rate H.P. Lovecraft around 3 stars, and I've come across so much commercial/main ...more

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Oct 02, 2024 TheNinjaReadsHorror rated it did not like it

Shelves: audiobook, 2024, w-the-fab

I'm clearly in the minority but I HATED this book. Most of the book was a story in a story and all I wanted was to get back to the main storyline. Listened to this on audiobook with my husband and we kept procrastinating in finishing because it was so boring. To make matters worse, his first language is German and it kept getting on his nerves the wrong article was used in possessive cases. There were other mistakes too and we kept coming back to the same logic of why not better research the cor ...more

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