Hey man, I'm trying to collect the Dungeon Crawler Carl books in paperback, and you have the 1st two which are the ones I need. I would love to buy them from you. If possible please, please let me know if you are able.

Absolutely ruined for me by "Ellas" pathetically stupid and conveniently plot driving decision to expose herself.

I’m a huge DCC fan and I’m collecting his books. The only one I’m missing is Carls Doomsday Scenario. Would you be interested in selling me your copy? I’d pay a very fair price for it.

I read them all, for me it is an absolute masterpiece. Just love these books.

Is the language/prose of the book easy and accessible?

You are in for a ride. This is a great series. I will say that the transition from Jordan to Sanderson is very jarring, to say the least.

Hey man, just found your channel. Im just hoping you listened to the Audiobooks... I also started by reading this series but i got talked into the audible and its just a different world. Its soooo damned good. This is the book i try to get everyone to read/listen to

Keep these coming🎉

I thought it was a lot of fun. Great buddy adventure series. Great review.

Sounds interesting but I've been burnt by anthony ryan before. I mean Blood Song was great but then the rest of that series went downhill fast. In other, happier, news, I'm glad your read the Whell of Time and I hope you enjoy your WOT journey, its a long one.

Great review! I'll have to check it out. The magic/pyramid system kind of sounds like the runelords series by David Farland, which was pretty good for a few books at least. Happy reading.

Great discussion!

Are these near as good as the malazan series ?

My suggestion for another litRPG series that non litRPG fans might enjoy is _Eight_ by Samer Rabadi. It is a very character focused story where a mature, talented human male from our world gets killed and is reincarnated as an 8-year old boy in a fantasy world, but in the first book he must pretty much survive outside of civilization. If you are subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, you can read the first three books at no extra cost, and the fourth book is being released multiple chapters a week on the free-reading site Royal Road.

I enjoyed this book more than you, but I completely can see your point of view. I have listened to all 6 currently available books, and one of my favorite elements of the series is how different each floor is, both compared to each other and other dungeon-oriented series

I am on the second book and i feel a lot intrigued ❤

Solid review

Hi friend, are these books easy to read ?

Good stuff! Thanks

Great content, buddy. I just finished chapter 2 and really appreciate hearing your thoughts about it.👍👏

Sounds interesting I'll add it to my TBR! PS you forgot a cut around 4:22 :)

It's been a since you posted, what are you reading now? I just finished Path of the Berserker 2, it had a lot of the same thing that you were talking about in Bastion, where people tell the MC that he can't win, but he fights and wins anyway.

I'm just glad your here cause I'm about to read 6 an wanted a refreshing.

Haven’t finished it yet (started book 3 today) but it’s an incredible ride so far.

When the Awakened NPC Signet sacrifices herself at the end of the Masquerade for Carl and tells him to go down to Floor 9 and show Empress D'Nadia how real her and her "fake" family are...still gives me chills. Especially if Carl manages to win the vote to make the PVP real in Faction Wars.

Bad shirt bad audio ok review

Great review

I think the audiobooks are the best way to read this series since sound booth studios does a great job and adds sound effects and multiple voices

You made the video!

The way Dinniman showed us Donut's fight with the dog... was very well done and great

About halfway through the book. This video is great to remember all the stuff that has happened 👍

I think the 'river' also is connected to the ring of divine suffering. Just a theory.

Heyoooooo. Your almost there! To the waiting I mean...

Have you considered going with a spoiler review? I have a feeling that most people who watch these videos are already fans 😁

Thanks for the content. I discovered this series something like 5 months ago and have been low key obsessed with it since then. Happy reading😃 Book 6 is wild too.

Based on the problems you had with this book, I think the second one might be more enjoyable for you. A lot of traitor’s cast is disposable but the sequel introduces all the major players that are followed for the rest of the series and also has multiple perspectives outside of baru. The tone is also REALLY different in the later books- it gets quite (darkly) humorous. In terms of pacing, the second and third book were originally one so the second book is like almost all build up for the third but I think it’s still really compelling. It really focuses on the ramifications of traitor’s ending but honestly it is still a lot of political maneuvering.

Finally got to finish this video. Now you have touched on almost everything important, and this was a really good discussion video. Enjoyed it. One clarification for you. Rake sacrificed Moon's Spawn because it was already in really bad shape and on its last legs. It was damaged badly in the Battle of Pale, and could not be repaired properly to make it long term habitable. So they decided to sacrifice it anyway and also get battle effectiveness out of it.

The 2-3rd book can be read without missing the 4th book. I didn’t miss the 4th like in Songs of Ice and Fire. Not the same case.

Learning what you’re reading now, what a reward for watching the whole video 😂 but good to know you’ll get to House of Chains soon Like you, I’ve heard a lotta hype about this book/series so I was particularly interested to hear your take. Surprised at the small issues it has (lack of character fleshing out, interlude weirdness) but they do sound super minor and won’t deter me from keeping this high on my TBR. Interesting thoughts on why you might not continue… I’m kinda OCD or completionist maybe about reading whole series (what’s published so far anyway) so as long as I like book 1 I’m sure I’ll quickly run through 2 and 3. But your logic makes sense! Thanks for the review, appreciate your perspective 😁

Ugh where did my comment go... I promise I commented after finishing the video :( Don't remember most of it now lol. But I did really love the video, your understanding of things is spot on. I'm glad you appreciate the depths and details of Malazan so much -- this series is for you!! The one thing I remember saying was about pronunciation -- not only is your pronunciation really good most of the time, Steve Erikson has said many times he doesn't care how you say things. As long as we know what you mean it's fine. That said, you get a lot of things right (according to the way Steve says it anyway) that most people don't -- like Tiste. So have some faith :)

You can never have too many knives… I mean, recommendations for the first law trilogy!

Glad to see this part 2 is a result of my comment and suggestion in the last video. 😊

Algo comment as I start watching 😁

Wowowow great video!! And so glad you loved this book so much Your explanation of the 3 levels of secrets and revelations was awesome. Really great way to look at it, makes perfect sense!! Bridgeburners are First In Last Out lol, you obviously got the message but you said it backwards, was pretty funny tbh And I really liked your structure with the prologue and relating that to the rest of the book. You won't be able to do that with every book after this (some of them though... some of them yes) but for this one in particular that was a great choice. And that's part of Erikson's genius, close reading like this is absolutely rewarded!! Looking forward to part 2!! 😄😄😄

You will learn why Whiskeyjack didn't heal his leg way later. Really wish you would have talked about Itkovian and his sacrifice. His role as the shield anvil, and that iconic scene with the T'lan Imass. About how we see the theme of compassion so vividly in this book. Also the Seige of Capustan, being such a vivid battle. Rake and Whiskeyjack's friendship, Whiskeyjack's understanding of Rake's compassion while executing the prisoners. So much to talk about. As if it can make a part 2 video by itself.

Good to see what you enjoyed the book so much! Interesting to see you speculating on why whiskyjack didn't get his leg healed. No spoilers, but you will learn why later on.

Welcome, Mortal Sword of Togg and Fendaray! The religious aspect was extremely important here. The Shield Anvil’s arc maybe seems a bit small or slowly expanding but that team captures the war itself and when someone fights for faith. And Malazan is about compassion. His arc was one of that. Besides Pannion. And yes, the next older race. Not that many of them.

Great to see that you loved it. Memories of Ice is usually people's favorite because this book is the closest to traditional fantasy structure and storytelling and pretty straight forward with clear good and bad guys. Every other book will subvert your expectations in different ways. You talked about structure, well you are in for a surprise. While the format of each book being broken into 4 subbooks will always continue, the other things that you expect about structure will always be subverted, and each book plays with structure in a different way. You may end up liking all of them for different reasons and some more than others. House of Chains is a divisive book and usually towards the bottom of people's favorites, but many people love it, its different. So no pressure, just go in and enjoy. Can't wait for your spoiler review.

Glad you liked it so much!! Common opinion, it is just an amazing book, and possibly the most self-contained "traditional" fantasy book of the whole series. I'll have more to say about specifics in your spoiler-filled video (can't wait for that!!) but here's some stray thoughts: -- correction, GotM is 7 books, but they start following the pattern of 4 books from Deadhouse Gates on, and you're right that structure lends itself well to naturally strong pacing and it just makes sense. Erikson is brilliant in many ways, including "minor" ways like structure -- MoI has probably the best prologue of the series. Even people who don't rate it their favorite will admit how bad ass it is -- on the subject of if it's all downhill from here -- no. Even if this ends up being your favorite, I promise it won't feel all downhill from here. There are plenty of people who LOVE the whole series who cite MoI as their favorite. It's usually the top ranked in polls, in fact. However, I assure you those people didn't hate the rest of the series lol. The thing is, each book is amazing in its own way. Erikson somehow finds something unique (or multiple unique things) to do with each one. Picking a favorite is really hard and for most people, changes depending on the day (not for me, the combined 9/10 I call The Crippled Dream is always my fave 😎). Anyway enough rambling, but I agree with Daniel's comment here that you should try not to have specific expectations for HoC -- it is different. And even though it ranks low in the whole series for me, it's still a fantastic book, it's just that the others are that much better for me. And some people rank HoC first -- it's not at all unheard of. It's amazing at what it does -- just go in trusting Erikson, and with as little expectation as possible. Meet it where it is. I think you'll love it!!

I would also withhold expectations for house of chains since it will break a lot of them.