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Side Quest Central

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

May 30, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario is a pretty good continuation of the Carl and Donut dungeon crawl. The characters and seat of the pants problem solving are still there, the dark humor that’s both tragic and still entertaining is still there. Plot-wise this volume gets thin; much like the side quest emphasis (new feature of this volume), there is not a lot of progress in the main overall situation. There’s also isn’t  a ton of character development beyond the “game character” that everyone has to perform to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Carl's Doomsday Scenario, D&D, dark humor, Dungeon Crawl Carl, gaming, Matt Dinniman, Princess donut, reality TV

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Carl's Doomsday Scenario, D&D, dark humor, Dungeon Crawl Carl, gaming, Matt Dinniman, Princess donut, reality TV ·
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The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

May 3, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

Another short one here primarily because the parts I most want to talk about in this story are spoilers. Book three of Dungeon Crawler Carl is top notch. The world continues to expand, the action gets more intense, and Donut and Carl’s relationship (the driving heart of the story) continues to deepen. In book 3 we have an additional confound: Mordecai is temporarily whisked away. Here we get an option for Carl’s role to strengthen, as he’s forced into the adult role keeping his garbage […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
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Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

April 27, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario continues the saga of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Let’s get the important stuff out of the way: if you liked the first book, you’ll like the second. There’s more of the same stuff featuring Carl and the adorable Princess Donut as they make their way through the complex world of the dungeon. The emotions continue to build, the story matures, and the characters get deeper and continue to move away from the tropes that tend to plague an Isekai-esque thing like this. In […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
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Doomsday Do’s and Doomsday Don’ts

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

April 22, 2025 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Carl is a normal dude. Except that he is stuck in the apocalypse. With his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut. And there is an alien invasion. Plus, Carl and most of what’s left of humanity are involuntarily placed on a Running-Man-style intergalactic game show. And the contestants don’t know who (if anyone) to trust. And the odds are that they will all die very soon. To stave off the inevitable, the characters have to kill monsters (Are they monsters?) and level up. Is it worth it […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: alien invasion, dystopia, LitRPG, Matt Dinniman

Halbs's CBR17 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: alien invasion, dystopia, LitRPG, Matt Dinniman ·
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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

April 19, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

I was first introduced to Dungeon Crawler Carl by my wife, squealing with delight and laughter at a dozen hilarious things in the first couple chapters. I was a little hard of a sell for her as I think that a lot of these “normal white redditor-style human gets transferred to video game irl” tend to be very fappy and poorly written. Add in that it’s self-published and that’s a recipe for disaster in my book. The first few chapters of DCC seemed to support this: Carl […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
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Carl and Donut’s Guide to Dungeon Crawling as Reality TV

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

February 8, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve had Dungeon Crawler Carl on my TBR for a while (picked it up as retail therapy not too long ago, but it’s been on a list for good bit longer), and then there was a spike of reviews on here, so now here’s my take. I kind of do get the hype; there’s humor but it’s kind of dark by necessity, there’s hope in the midst of tragedy and chaos, and it’s mostly pretty entertaining. The basic story feels kind of like a mish-mash […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, apocalyptic, Cats, D&D, deadliest game, dungeon crawl, Dungeon crawler Carl, dungeons, dystopia, Matt Dinniman, sci-fi, speculative

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, apocalyptic, Cats, D&D, deadliest game, dungeon crawl, Dungeon crawler Carl, dungeons, dystopia, Matt Dinniman, sci-fi, speculative ·
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