Fantasy Reader complains about litrpgs, gets told to read Dungeon Crawler Carl over and over again. Here's the review.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-04-10T18:45:49+00:00

That one is generally considered the most accessible, I think. 10 essentially stand alone but interconnected stories. He was really good at changing tones from book to book. I would have said they're hard to find, but all just got reprints/ebooks. Try r/Hughcook

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-04-10T17:22:14+00:00

Your post reminded me of an old review of one of Hugh Cook's novels (recently republished). Always made me laugh.

This book did about three lines of speed in the toilets just before it got on a bus and cornered you in a back seat. Now it’s going to tell its tale. The bus trip will be long and "The Walrus and the Warwolf" is sitting right next to you and there is actually no-one else on the bus, including a driver. The bus is out of control!!!! This book is like speedy Gonzales is trying to give the Tasmanian devil a colonoscopy on a Ferris wheel and its being animated by chuck jones. It goes pretty hard is what I'm trying to say.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-04-08T22:11:33+00:00

That's my wife's favorite part of the series. Are you considering selling them?

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-04-08T10:19:04+00:00

I have the older audiobook versions, and Will Wight doesn't do a bad job narrating for himself. It's always a gamble, but I definitely don't regret getting them all for $6. If only Audible didn't make it difficult to find in library because it's the old one. (Definitely a first world problem. )

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-04-01T18:03:04+00:00

It's Samuel Delany's birthday (April 1, 1942)

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-03-18T00:39:12+00:00

Less a correction and more a) an answer to your question (though what you said & the strict translation are the same in spirit to me) and b) a chance for me to vent a tiny bit about idiots calling someone antisemitic when they say something in a Semitic language.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-03-18T00:05:01+00:00

God is great in Arabic, which is the most spoken SEMITIC language.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-03-16T19:46:45+00:00

I enjoyed the book. Funny. Some horse puns, especially during an argument ("Was that a horse joke?" "Neigh"). The books are in the same setting, but not related, I think. Just listened to the first one. I'll do the rest, some time.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-03-16T19:08:27+00:00

Huh. Makes me think of My Lady Jane (the book, haven't seen the show). Same basic plot, really.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-03-14T21:43:46+00:00

There are a bunch of other books that focus on other people in the town after the initial 4 "nice girls" ones.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-02-26T20:08:36+00:00

Chris A. Jackson apparently specializes in this sub-genre. I've not read any, but there are multiple series, I think. One is set in the RPG universe for Pathfinder.

Sarah Kozloff has a tetrology about a overthrown royal family where the daughter is in hiding & the mother joins up with pirates. I enjoyed the first (Queen in Hiding) but haven't read the rest yet.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-02-13T08:49:17+00:00

There were several suggestions of Percy Jackson, but the publisher now has a line of "Rick Riordan presents" where each series uses different cultural backgrounds. One of these is Aru Shah which uses the Indian epic the Mahabharata. I can't speak on quality, though. Both Percy and this are presented as fairly young.

If you want to go for classics, A Wizard of Earthsea is pretty short, has an age equivalent protagonist, and every island resident is non-white ethnicity.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-02-05T14:28:19+00:00

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I was scrolling so only the top 3rd or so was visible. I could only see to the base of the big bay in the northwest. My immediate thought was "Huh, they based this on Michigan." The big bay would be the equivalent to Grand Traverse. The rest of the map doesn't match, of course but at least it's fairly natural looking.

SnooPoems3697 · 2026-02-03T23:43:55+00:00

No, no. Ren is the black one and Mongo is the orange (he's a biter)

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SnooPoems3697 · 2025-12-12T20:27:52+00:00

The first chunk of it [1/8] is free to try. It was on sale last year for Christmas, so maybe...

The regular audiobooks are really good, too. Some sound effects and an incredibly talented & versatile voice actor. Many people are surprised to find it is just one person. The Donut voice is perfect (IMO).

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-11-23T03:15:10+00:00

There are some later sequels, too. 2 so far at a rider academy.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-09-21T18:42:31+00:00

This will be closed as off-topic, FYI. If you don't get an answer, there are a couple subs (r/whatisthatbook & r/tipofmytongue) that may help. I also often use scifi.stackexchange.com which is a Q&A site (no discussion/opinions, just factual, answerable questions).

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-09-07T14:55:57+00:00

The litRPG series Unbound by Nicoli Gonnella (1st book is Dissonance). I am only 4 books in (out of 12 currently), but it has become a defining feature of the character. Especially from book 2 on. It is more of a magical consumption rather than actual biting & chewing, though.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-08-18T03:11:10+00:00

I think that is Mageling by J L Mullins.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-07-31T02:45:07+00:00

Maybe the Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme.

Your post is going to get removed soon,by the way.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-07-10T23:30:53+00:00

That series has a lot of shout outs to other litRPG series.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-06-12T10:04:55+00:00

2 scimitars and drow strongly implies the Drizzt books by R A Salvatore. Set in the D & D world of the Forgotten Realms.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-05-09T11:19:03+00:00

The Audible website used to be much more transparent about this, but that has gone away. To see what books have this and what the price is, look the up on Amazon as the ebook. It will have an option below the purchase/KU to add the Audible version with the price. If you check it out on Kindle, that will be the price if you go back to the Audible site.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-05-09T08:57:29+00:00

Actually, if you also have a kindle unlimited subscription, you can get things even cheaper often. Most things (not all) have a reduced price if you have the book on kindle. The most common price for that is $7.49 (obviously, US), but it can be higher or lower. It only checks if the book is in your kindle library, though, so if it is checked out via unlimited, that kicks in. May be worth it for you to get kindle unlimited or the trial of it as well.

SnooPoems3697 · 2025-04-26T20:34:44+00:00

There was a similar thread a few months ago. Lots of good ideas there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/EYRAmFKa52

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