Loved itAnd Dudge Carer Carl. Those three are like my top three so far.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl (2020)
Others: Mostly positive The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.
- ISBN:
- 9798217287161
- Length:
- 465 pages
Genres: fantasy
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Loved it
Not a fanSo, you won't get a review from me ever because I don't like it. I have a hard D and F that book. Like, I do not like it.
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Loved itI read books two through seven this year. I did not think I was going to like it, but man, the narrative, the characters, the plot just won me over and the audiobooks in particular are so good.
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MixedSo, I read this as an audiobook first, and maybe I wasn't in the right space. And unfortunately, that is the case with Princess Donut, and I genuinely love pretty much every other voice. It's just Princess Donut that I can't.
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Loved itI'm in the middle of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Really liking it. It's basically my like on-the-go book right now. It's so goofy and ridiculous, but I love it.
Loved itI liked it. It was good. In the moment of reading it, it was great because it was exciting and fresh and it just kind of cleansed the palette.
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Loved itIt's fantastically done. It is so well done. ... It's absolutely genius writing and it's nothing like I usually like.
Loved itI read the whole series. It was the first thing that I read in the year, Dungeon Crawler Carl. And then I binged the whole series and it's the best thing that I've ever read.
Loved itThis is a book I would probably recommend to about 90% of people. That it's just so much fun.
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MixedI love the character work I love the premise of the story I think that Matt denan is an excellent writer
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Loved itDungeon Crawler Carl down here the only one I haven't absolutely loved was book six so I mean this is simply the best this is some of the best of the best stuff out there
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Loved itdungeon carwler Carl is a is a series that has such an amazing place in my heart... it leans into that ridiculous side of things and it's just fun... it is laugh out loud hilarious constantly throughout this book
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Loved itI really dug this I didn't know if I'd be into lit RPG I only read one before this I really like the world I really like the politics of the world I really like the setup and I love the characters and Grand Champion princess donut was my character the year
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Loved itthis one is an amazing character who just got stuck in a really ridiculous silly situation that is so fun