The Fisherman

By: John Langan

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

©2016 John Langan (P)2023 Tantor Media

The narrator and the story are extremely dull

The story soon delves into a past timeline, that takes up most of the book and is very bland and dull, which is only exacerbated by the monotonous reading of the narrator. I was really stoked for this book, but I'd pass if I were you. The middle part is kind of like gothic horror, which I normally like, but this was really boring and it was hard for me to focus.

Descriptions, descriptions and more descriptions

Liked the story, disliked the overfocus on descriptions. The book is far too "wordy". You do get a sense of Lovecraftian horror here and there, but it is hard for the mind not to wander when the story drones on without progressing