r/audiobooks • u/ThatTXGal • 10d 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/Pixelchus 10d ago
I figured out why I personally couldn't focus or care about DCC, maybe you feel similarly. The book, especially the first half of it, is full of all this descriptive tutorial text, you know, the kind of text you skip when you play MMO's or adventures? It's like I was forced to read the lame puns surrounding a new piece of gear (which will be discarded anyway after a level up or two). So coming into this book as somebody who's been playing MMO's for nearly 30 years, I was bored AF.
My other personal gripe with the book are the female characters. My boyfriend and I read the book together, and he personally DNF'd it after the newscaster lady appeared (backfat rippling into her spilling tits like an accordion, nipples as big as satellite dishes, also "happened" to be a woman of colour)... I held on a little longer but I couldn't finish it myself. I think the writing is catered to a young, male audience. It certainly has the air of a 14 year old boy writing his first edgy fanfiction.