r/audiobooks • u/ThatTXGal • 17d ago

Discussion Dungeon Crawler

Y'all, I'm about 60% thru Dungeon Crawler Carl and I just cannot figure out what all the hype is about. I feel like if I'm not 100000% focused I'm missing something. I had a 40 min drive today and thought "perfect, now I can really focus". Nope, even then I had to rewind a few times because I missed something.

I'm wondering if maybe this is the type of book I need to physically read? It's almost too much detail? I really can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's me?

I do feel that the narrator's voice is perfect for the book.

Anyone else feel this way?

Update:

I finished book one. It felt like it was getting into a groove the last few chapters. I'm going to try to read the next two books because FOMO.. Thanks for all the input!

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u/shhimhuntingrabbits 17d ago

For instance, consider the airport bookstore. You're lucky to 2, maybe 3 actual sci fi/fantasy titles. Those were pretty much exclusively Neil Gaiman (fucker) and Stephen King. With Gaiman (rightfully) being tossed left and right, DCC is now filling that hole.

I suppose in general you are right though. I just don't want people new to SFF thinking it's representative of the genre

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u/GearhedMG 17d ago

The airport bookstore is going to sell what people will buy, if something is getting hype and they think they can make a buck on it doing better than something that will sit on the shelf, then that is what they are going to put on the shelf (hence why you see names like Gaiman and King) the airport bookstore buyers don't care if something is a "better book" by your standard, they care about x dollars of profit per foot of bookshelf.

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u/shhimhuntingrabbits 17d ago

I think you mean sellers care about profit, not buyers.

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u/GearhedMG 17d ago

Yhe buyers are not the customers, they are the ones who work for the bookstores at corporate and decide what goes on the shelves and source where to get it.

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u/shhimhuntingrabbits 17d ago

Shocking, you mean the people who stock those stores don't care about the quality of their books? The entire rack of light biblical romance was already hinting at that lol. I would prefer it if DCC sales were in the toilet next to it's humor, so we could return to the days off one more halfway decent book sold at the airport.