Dungeon Crawler Carl

The seventh floor of Dungeon Crawler Carl is my favorite so far. It's a very fast read.

I can see where Dungeon Crawler could go that way -- I just did the newest Bobiverse book on Audible, and it's just so goddamned repetitive. I'm not sure I can slog through another one. I feel like Dungeon Crawler is doing a really good job of setting up and laying the groundwork for more _meaningful_ conflict in future books. But I'm only on Book 3, so who knows? Ask me again 2 books from now.

I too am on DCC; I wonder why I like it, but I do. Strangely, one of the things it reminds me of, is the Malazan-Book-of-the-fallen series, in spite of how different they are. I was/have been on the 'book that wouldnt burn' series; I still have to read the final third book. Ironically, I have not yet finished that series because I dread it; the author is a little too good at writing truly loathable antagonists, and at the same time reading him, you have learned he cares little for plot armor ('if he dies, he dies', sigh.) Other than that, Piranesi by Susanne Clarke; I have also gotten her earlier book, but not gotten far into it yet. DCC is strangely hypocritical - a massive commercial success where we the readers revel-wallow in the graphic suffering of the fictive protagonists/victims, and author & co are making truckloads of profits, precisely on the kinds of sheenanigans the books on the surface critisize :-). It is also a bit ironic, that the books/Carl critisize fascism, while at the same time, Carl is on a kind of one-man fascist/tyrant purging the existing elite, with summary and graphic executions. Sigh :-)

The latest dungeon crawler Carl book comes out on Tuesday. That’s a fun series. I’m also reading the new James SA Corey series (the expanse). The first one is called “the mercy of gods”. I also received the recommendation of “what moves the dead” but I haven’t read it yet.

Jeff Hays is an incredible narrator. It appears he only narrates LitRPG. Of which, DCC seems to be basically the only readable series. Would love to see him branch out.

DCC is êxcéllént. I have also been enjoying Pale Lights and The Years of Apocalypse.

The main thing I read was the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. It requires even more suspension of disbelief than a usual sci fi / fantasy combo, but was worth it for the characters and laughs and “where will he take this next?!”.

The Dungeon Crawler Carl series on Audible. I can’t normally get audiobooks to hold my attention but the company that does these is so good and so funny that I can’t stop listening.

The Apology by Plato. Short but insightful. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. If you like LitRPG this series is just so good. Paul's "Works of the Law" in the Perspective of Second-Century Reception by Matthew J. Thomas. If you are a theology nerd this is just exceedingly interesting.