This is the Dungeon Crawler Carl Complete Collection (8 Hardcover Books) - Dungeon Crawler Carl, Carl's Doomsday Scenario, Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, Gate of the Feral Gods, Butcher's Masquerade & More book set,
Dungeon Crawler Carl 9780593820247
Carl's Doomsday Scenario 9780593820261
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook 9780593820285
The Gate of the Feral Gods 9780593955970
The Butcher's Masquerade 9780593955994
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 9780593956014
This Inevitable Ruin 9798217190041
A Parade of Horribles 9798217190065
Brief Description: "The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up an…
Matt Dinniman is the best-selling writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the published author of dozens of short stories and a gaggle of books. In addition, his art publications—from greeting cards to stationery kits to calendars—can be found in boutique and stationery shops around the world. Also, he strongly feels like a pretentious twat when he writes about himself in third person.
Having now read the first three books of this popular series, I find myself waiting for when it's going to get good. Apparently it has a great audiobook and that would have elevated the reading experience - I read physical copies. This book dragged a bit for me and I had to stop myself skimming at times - never a good sign.
Ultimately though this series has a couple of big flaws at this point: - Three books in and I don't really care about what happens to any of the characters - The stakes are high (death!) but there's no weight to them
I am uncertain if I'll continue on in the series, and I certainly wouldn't recommend the series unless I know it was going to be firmly in the strike zone for the prospective reader.
This is my personal review of all books until the 8th. I finished them very quickly and don't want to go through each one since the content is a little mushed together in my brain. From the 8th book on I'll do individual reviews. This one is going to be short and sweet because I really dont think there is much to say. This book got me back into reading and it had all the aspects I appreciate in a book. It was smart, genuinely funny, had lovable characters, fun and adventurous plot, interesting plot twists, plenty of surprises, creative items/map structures/powers. Everything I need is there and I will continue to read more.
Hard to say if this is the best one as I'm binge reading them but I do feel the final shape of the series is coming into view. Also, can we talk for a moment about the insane pace these are coming out and how they get increasingly better. The first novel was published in 2020, this in 2024. Even Brandon Sanderson is impressed and I'm sure G.R.R. Martin would give up out of a sense of inferiority if he hadn't already given up.
The audible experience for both this collection and the first collection is unmatched, I have never had an audible experience that’s been so enjoyable, fun, and entertaining - Jeff Hayes did an excellent job with the narration & Matt Dinnimon has don’t an excellent job with creating such a fun and silly story that will just pull on your emotional strings out of nowhere…
Wildly inventive and relentlessly entertaining. The apocalypse-as-gameshow premise is ridiculous in the best possible way: loot boxes, magic stats, intergalactic talk shows, and Donut the cat, who is both a princess and a menace.