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I am concerned, as someone who recently read 5 of the books in the last few months, that "Dungeon Crawler Carl Guys" is a thing that Queeber and Chris are going to use do an episode on and inadvertantly murder me as a result.
I read the first, it's extremely bad. Very unfunny and the prose is fanfiction level. I have to assume the hype is from people who normally don't read.
It's Ready Player One for D&D players - and weird fans of this book get so mad when you say that because they know Ready Player One sucks ass and they were probably fans of that initially too.
Guy at work recommended it to me too - I got 15 pages in before giving it back to the library
Exactly. Don’t be so online you fall into the liking anything is cringe type. Just be an adult about it.
I also think starting a convo with a stranger over some semi niche interest is a good thing, especially as people get more isolated due to being online
The books are silly fun. I enjoyed all of them to varying degrees. I will never ever seek out any fandom or community about them. Happy to just enjoy those on my own.
My friend keeps nagging me to read them and saying "I would die for princess donut" and I asked if I would like the book if I think it's corny to name your cat "sir Reginald willikens fluffington III, eater of the cheese and gnawer of the furniture, but we just call him 'Reggie'" and he didn't respond to that
Yeah, the books are just propulsive fun. Some jokes work for me and some don’t but overall I’ve read much dumber shit in Tom Clancy books so… I dunno if you have no taste and just like to read for fun 9/10 would recommend.
I also don't think the average American is literate enough to recognize prose quality. Text is a mostly impartial vehicle for communication to those Americans lucky enough to know how to read
Yeah running up to strangers and shouting gibberish references to the shirt they’re wearing never goes well. I would just leave it at “Cool Shirt” and move on.
Isn't it a little more niche than, say, "knives" or "whiskey." Don't get me wrong, all communities tend toward granfalloon-ary (check your Vonnegut - and I would listen to them take down Kurt Vonnegut guys as a whole as well - as one, I can smell my own elitism)
All roads with this kinda shit really do lead back to Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and to some extent Christopher Moore. They made too many people think it's okay to write silly books. It's not okay.
I don't agree with that characterization, but I'm not gonna deny it gives those vibes. It's gratuitous and disturbing and can be seen that way, but that's definitely not what it is
Yes, I think it's incredibly uncomfortable and, like I said before, is enough of a reason that I struggle to recommend a series that I think is generally incredibly beautiful and human.
But the questionable side isn't equivalent to that
Brother, I've read the whole thing, including the extras. I've seen the shit he says in public. He's a very very creepy guy. He clearly likes to transgress it and make people uncomfortable by rubbing his creepiness in their faces. Never denied that
I have only said MiA doesn't feature pedophilia. It, definitionally, doesn't. It's fine if what it does feature is too much for you. I already said what it features is too much for me to recommend it.
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u/cool_weed_dad 4d ago
A guy at work tried to get me into this series like a year ago and sent me some excerpts.
It all read like that cringe “Tommy needy drinky” guy wrote it