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Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman

A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

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Back in early summer, my boss asked me if I’d read the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and I had no idea what he was talking about. I guess the books had really taken off by this point, because he’s not someone I’d generally describe as being in touch with the online book community. He described them to me as a guy getting trapped in a video game, and I was vaguely intrigued. I haven’t been reading much lately, and my favorite podcast (Knowledge Fight) had […]

Dungeon Me, Maybe

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

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At long last, I have joined the throngs of adoring fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, having listened to the first audiobook via Audible. The voice acting was by far the best voice acting I think I’ve ever had in an audiobook, closely followed by Project Hail Mary, which also had exceptional voice acting. The story starts with the destruction of planet Earth and the commencement of a terrifying dungeon crawler computer game, but in real life, where Carl and his trusty cat, […]

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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8) by Matt Dinniman

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I think this is in my top three of the series. The ending was one of the wildest things I’ve ever read in a book. But way too much happened here, and I have way too many thoughts to sum up my feelings, so we’re going to bullet point this one with things that I’m thinking of off the top of my head: *You love Prepotente, this is your book. I had so many feels about him, also I laughed at him quite a bit. […]

I can feel it coming in the air tonight

A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

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Bingo Square: Joker (Carl is chaos personified) Quote: “That’s the problem with hitting the elites financially. Every time you hurt one, all it does is make another richer. That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads.” Throughout the series, the beginnings of the new novels and floors have tended to act as resets and completely shift the tone. Book 3 went from everyone working together at the end of the Iron Tangle to being separated for the Bubbles; Book 5 to Book […]

A Theory of Dinniman Sucess

Operation: Bounce House by Matt Dinniman

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I have read 7 of the 8 currently available Dungeon Crawl Carl books so far, but it took me until Operation: Bounce House to figure out how to describe what I’ve read of Matt Dinniman in terms of genre. Operation Bounce House is not part of the Carl series; it’s a stand-alone, with different cast and different universe, but also some distinct similarities including genre and general tone. The premise is still conventional sci-fi: human colonists of New Sonora are mostly farmers who, with the […]

Closing Some Doors, Some Still Open

This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman

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Capture the flag is now the name of the game in This Inevitable Ruin aka Dungeon Crawl Carl 7, or really more like capture the enemy castles and hold the throne rooms, and probably also kill all members of the enemy group. This is also the Faction Wars part, meaning that some of the other teams actually are from outside the dungeon, and are paying to participate. A lot of the outside groups are now eligible to directly participate, and several do. There’s an interesting […]



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