Dungeon Crawler Carl

I actually started this several months ago and 50 pages in I abandoned because I decided this is just silly escapist trash. But I needed something new to listen to in the car and Cybil of all people (“not in to guy books”) praised the audio edition and that was good enough for me to give it a second chance.

Now, having finished book one, I can say definitively that, yes, it is still mostly silly and escapist but there are multiple subplots to make it interesting as well as recurring gags. For example Carl comes in to to the dungeon with no shoes and no pants and never seems to find any, certainly not in loot from monsters…then it becomes evident that the AI(?) running the dungeon seems to have a foot fetish focused on Carl.

I should add that the voice acting is excellent and I can not now imagine reading it when I could listen to it. Judging from the 4.7 stars on 23.8K listens I am not at all unique in my taste for this amazing piece of “LitRPG”

This is a story about a characters trapped in a dystopian universe that I listen to relieve the stress of living in Donald Trump’s America. Now I have six more books to consume, and since clever old Amazon/Audible has camped out on exclusive access to the audiobooks, there will go six more credits into Jeff Bezo’s grandchildren’s children’s children’s inheritance.