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Dungeon Crawler Carl
The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.
You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what.
Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.
Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.
Includes part one of the exclusive bonus story “Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.”
You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what.
Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.
Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.
Includes part one of the exclusive bonus story “Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.”
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Community Reviews
Before reading this I was told more than once, "If you love Terry Pratchett or Douglass Adams or David Wong that you'll really love this." Well, I love the works of Terry Pratchett, Douglass Adams, and David Wong and I didn't love this. For a while, I couldn't put my finger on what it was, as it fits the genre with the same kind of over-the-top humor. I eventually realized that it really just lacks the clever wit and satire that those authors weave into their works. It's not enough to just write a ridiculous and over the top story, you have to be really clever about it for it to work and this just wasn't that in my opinion.
Many reviews espouse that it's for a very specific audience of gamers who like DnD and play video games. I'm also a part of that audience and while I was amused by the first few "achievement" announcements, the trope got old and just became annoying really fast. That being said, towards the end it did taper off on all of the repetitive gaming references and I did enjoy the last quarter of the story. I'm just not sure I enjoyed it enough to continue the series.
idk what else to add to what everyone else says. It’s really is just so much fun to read. Literally from sentence one! It’s such an easy read too I think this would be a great book for people wanting to get into reading especially if you’re a gamer (me trying to get my bf to read this book) love the characters too i actually held my breath at some points but overall this was so much fun
This was a reread for me but I really enjoyed it! I forgot that Donut is a tortie so made me give my baby extra cuddles thinking of her sass! I also had forgotten how gross some things were lol but I love this genre and recommend this book to people all the time!
Everyone must read this book. It's AMAZING. Dungeons & Dragons meets video game mechanics in a really fun book
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