Dungeon Crawler Carl - by Matt Dinnimnan
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Back at the end of February, I attended a Tigres (local sandlot baseball team I’m on) function and a teammate turned me onto a app called FABLE. On said app was a book club that he recently joined and he asked if I was interested in joining.
I admittedly have never really been in a book club. Over the years I’ve read books in a group class setting. On a few occasions a person would start a book and recommend that I check it out also - kinda making a small sith book club of 2.
I joined said app and the first book they selected was a real treat called - Dungeon Crawler Carl. Want to quickly point out that I don’t really read books that are a part of an established series. I don’t really know why I’m difficult but part of me has always wanted to gravitate to books and stories that are confined to one singular release.
I’ve broken this rule a few times over the years and happily did so again so that I could read this with some new internet frens.
Dungeon Crawler Carl was a true delight. I read this several books ago, so I’m going on muscle memory. There’s a guy named Carl and one night while contemplating some heavy shit like breaking up with his girlfriend. He notices that her cat escaped the apartment they share. He went out after it and as soon as he does that - the apartment building they lived in got leveled to the ground. A bizarre world changing event takes place. I can only describe it as an over lord alien race takes over the planet and those who could hear them speaking overhead are told they have two choices. To enter this thing that is like a game/dungeon crawl. Or attempt to make it on their own on the outside of the game. Inside the game they can fight for their lives and make their way through a bunch of levels. On the outside, well they can fend for themselves but they will likely parish.
Carl and the Cat make their way in and the book kinda takes off from there. Perhaps its a lifetime of playing video games - specifically RPGs. I really immersed myself into this book. I found myself easily seeing what they were describing and found myself wanting to know what becomes of these characters. Especially the cat donut. I can’t believe I’m going to say this but I really want to read the next one. I’m told theres 6 or 7 of these books. That’s a very tall order…. there’s so many other books I should probably dive into.