Ending was expected, but I guess if you have such a long running series, pretty much ending will always be expected. Bad guy meets Reacher, bad guy loses, Reacher wins. Fun to read though, which is the main point. Going to keep reading them.

Don't think it ticked any of the Bingo boxes though.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is Dungeon Crawler Carl good? I wanted to find a light funny fantasy book and was deciding between that and Goblin Quest and decided to try the GQ first.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago

As a DCC reader, this is a fair meme.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I am a big fan of Dungeon Crawler Carl, especially the audiobook. If you aren’t used to listening to books or you had trouble in the past, this is a perfect book to try it again.

It’s not going to be the best book you’ve ever read, but I promise promise promise you will never get bored. I found myself laughing out loud in my car a few times, and I teared up once.

The narrator, however, is the best I’ve ever heard and it’s not even close. I was absolutely blown away. This man could be doing very well for himself in cartoons and video games. You’ll feel like listening to a cartoon, which is why I say it’s an easy book to try on audio.

If you do listen, let me know what you think! If you get to the later books, I’m always looking for someone to discuss theories with!

I haven’t heard of GQ, but I see on Goodreads, I see a friend of mine gave it 5 stars. (He rated DCC at a 4, for what it’s worth). How do you like it so far?

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 4 points 2 days ago

It starts out pretty light too, and I like how there’s some good deepening of the commentary of the society too.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's alright.

Its shortish and I am like halfway through, and so far have yet to be forced to smile. It's an interesting idea of doing it from the Goblins perspective, but I don't feel enough time was spent in the beginning to get me attached to the character enough. I also just feel like it could be better in general, maybe it will be in the last half.

I haven't done audiobook in a while. Last one I did was one of Sanderson's Stormlight archive books and it was a little overwhelming while doing anything that requires any amount of focus.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have yet to read Goblin Quest, but I do really like that author. His Liberiomancer series is really good.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah. When I first tried audio, I couldn’t do it at all. I just kept missing too much. I had to teach myself how to do it and once it clicked, I couldn’t go back.

I find it helps me stay on task when doing tedious tasks while listening, but I can’t work my day job and listen either.