Book Review: The Raw Shark Texts

Welcome to my book review of The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. As I was gathering a couple pictures, and reading the synopsis of the book to refresh myself on the book, I could swear that I’d done a review on it before. So I went to my site, and looked, I couldn’t find anything, but then again, I didn’t look too hard. It want checked off on my list, so here we are!

Imagine waking up in a strange house, with no memory of being there, no memory of yourself, no memory of anything. That’s what happened to Eric Sanderson. There’s a not to call this number, and it signed by himself, or so the note says. He calls the number and it’s his psychologist, and she tells him he has a condition.

Following a trail of clues and notes, Eric finds that he’s being hunted by a conceptual shark called a Ludovician.

I really liked this book. You can really identify with Eric, as you are going into this as blind as he is. You, like him, don’t know if you can believe the Eric that’s writing the notes. You even start to feel a little paranoid as Eric explores his past with the help of some mysterious characters that help him a long the way.

Like House of Leaves, this has some interesting printing in it. Some pictures formatted from words. At one point you actually turn what you’re reading into a flip book.

This book really does need to be on more people’s to be read lists. I really enjoyed this book, and more people should as well.