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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 25 (discuss.online)
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I finished Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman last week. It's the first book of Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

I mentioned the week before that the litRPG doesn't have high stakes, since you know nothing is going to happen to your character and it's just going to get stronger and stronger, but I failed to realise that this happens when you don't care about any side characters. Which is not to say that something happens (or doesn't happen) to side characters, but that the side characters are well written that you care about them.

Started The Novice by Trudi Canavan. The second book in The Black Magician trilogy.

The first book was completely focused on one place and one task, this book expands the world, and different characters are doing completely different things so it's interesting to see how things will develop. I am still in the start though, and while the book feels as quick to read as the first one, it has quite a bit of bullying in it (at least in the start, where I am), and I am not a fan of reading that, so the progress is going pretty slow. Going to stick with it though, cause it feels like the kind of book where our protagonist is going to become super powerful, with somewhat "good" ending.

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

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[–] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I stopped at the first book. I'm really glad other people like it, but the time spent on all the item descriptions really weighed it down for me. I hope it keeps getting better for you!

[–] dresden@discuss.online 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The item descriptions were one of the things that I found so funny. If you didn't like them, I can see you not enjoying the book as much.

[–] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I think that they were funny, but there were so many that it was too much and I started to feel like they were a slog. By this series' popularity, I know I'm in the minority, and I'm glad that it works for all y'all.