Book Review: Monster Hunter International, by Larry Correia

[@alexanderthered5603]

And to think I found MHI, MH Vendetta, and MH Legion in a small-town obscured bookstore as used bent faded books, and then becoming my all time favorite book series. I have MHM: Grunge coming Monday, I'm too excited!

[@gadellomagnollo1810]

I found Nemesis in a thrift store and read it immediately. Three years later got the rest.

[@den2k885]

Wait what. My favourite youtuber and divulgator reviews one of my favourite book series? And I discover it only now?

[@petesheppard1709]

Finally seeing this in 2020, through a MHI fan page on Facebook. Good overview, though Ian did miss the overbearing, paranoid gov't agency. Eight years on, and the younger Ian sounds almost like a kid...😄

[@a.r.hollowayauthor7210]

"all three books in the series" aaaaaaaaaaaaand now there are like 15 haha

[@sambaggins2798]

Love all this authors works! He seems to focus his love on competition style guns but he branches out to others so it’s all good. In an interview he stated he put in a bunch of gun stuff for his initial target audience. The rest is history. Great series!

[@bumpercoach]

love your work Ian, and Larry's too the Grimnoir series is also really cool and the government angle in both series is spot on -- can't wait for the next book of MHI to come out (and the Son of the Black Sword sequel too) hope to see yall team up on a vid someday

[@sambaggins2798]

Looking at some of your older videos and saw this lol. Never realized you were a fan of the author. I love the whole series!

[@blank557]

Big fan too of Correia's books. His Grimnoir series, "Hard Magic," "Spellbound", and "Warbound" are superb 1930's Noir with magic, guns, and airships. I cannot recommend them enough.

[@G11354]

This book reads like an "Evil Dead/Army of Darkness" film, which is great. If your a gun nut the author has you covered from firearm models (in detail) to a variety of realistic ammunition to fantastic fictional rounds. Worth the read.

[@rogerkelly2827]

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[@lennygrew6893]

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[@emmyhamed8938]

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[@zionleach3001]

I really enjoyed it. The details and info-dumps didn't really bug me. But it seems like he gets very few constructive criticism. Most of the criticisms are saying the characters are bland and thier just power fantasies. Yet these kinda people praise self-inserts. By that I mean they most negative reviews are the very people he makes fun of.

[@Geekygianttv]

We need more updates about you reading more of the series!

[@mahbriggs]

I was/am a devoted reader of Baen Books, and was a member of "The High Road" gun site. So I was aware when it came out and bought it immediately! I have all of them.

[@threeriversforge1997]

I was on THR way back when it first started and remembered talking with Larry a few times. It was pretty neat to "run into" him again, but this time through the books. He's good people.

[@mahbriggs]

@@threeriversforge1997 I missed Larry when he was an active member, but he announced one of his Dead Six books on the site, and out of curiosity, I bought it! Been a real big fan of his every since!

[@threeriversforge1997]

@@mahbriggs I forget what group THR split off from. We were all members on that forum and then moved to THR when it started up. I really liked the quality of the posting there in those first years, but life took me down another path and I lost contact with everyone. Good to see some folks are still around!

[@diasirea]

Safety on revolvers? The Singapore Police's Webley revolvers had safeties as had some German & Belgian revolvers of early to mid 20th century, but these are obscure & truly forgotten weapons.I agree with you about bogus gun details spoiling mood of book or film.

[@GuntherRommel]

Hey Ian, any chance you will review any of the others? Siege just came out in the summer..

[@Mrcookieonyt]

Hey found thos while looking up my favorite book series

[@allabasterkt]

Wow! I never realised there was a crossover of internet royalty.

[@pasibeus]

Heard them recently on audible. Great!!!! Geetings from germany!

[@subp123]

I have audiobook and even thoug I like guns I found MHI a bit meh. Anyways, in terms of guns, there was a bit of a missed opportunity in the book. Imagine how manufacturers like Glock or Beretta could have monster hunting specials built for all the shadowy government and private outfits!

[@matthorvath9951]

I'd love someday to see Ian and Larry just talking guns and literature.

[@wwood14]

Did you ever read 'The Forgotten Soldier' by Sajer?? If so, what did you think??

[@hariman7727]

Monster Hunter International is a ton of fun.

[@99subetai]

Wait...what? Zombies aren't real? That's EXACTLY what the zombies want you to think!

[@doobing]

There all great books

[@dustyak79]

sounds like it be a good movie.

[@hellfrog24]

Good review, but what I really learned is that Gun Jesus doesn't age. At all.

[@540i6vids]

Reading any more mhi Ian?

[@connorwalsh7033]

One the book becomes needs shows

[@GunFunZS]

+1 These books are a guilty pleasure. While they are certainly cheesy schlock ticking all the cliche boxes, they still end up being very fun. I will buy them as often as he writes them. Larry Correa used to run a gun store, and still teaches CCW classes, and LE training courses. He is a 3 gun competitor, and wrote one of the most persuasive articles on gun control for the average person I have ever read. (It's good for something other than choir preaching.) See here:1389blog.com/2012/12/23/larry-correia-refutes-the-gun-controllers-once-and-for-all/ I was introduced to him, because I spend too much time on the saiga forums, and lots of MHI fans come periodically to see what they can do to get a legal version of the protagonist's custom Saiga 12, "abomination." Minus the happy switch and SBS chop, most of us are actually playing with nicer guns than that now, but when MHI came out, the parts described were daydreams for most saiga owners. Now they are off the shelf parts. Well, maybe not the silver inlaid spring loaded bayonet...

[@SiegeBallista]

Ugh, fuck off.

[@connorwalsh7033]

A tv show to be exact

[@threeriversforge1997]

I always find it interesting how people just automatically jump to the conclusion that MHI is fiction instead of non-fiction disguised as fiction. IF there really was an MHI and the Big Government Agency that we won't name.... wouldn't you expect the coverup to be rather solid? The book just happens to accidentally be about an accountant who finds himself in a whole new world, and Larry just happens to be an accountant. The books are filled with solid gun knowledge and Larry, a boring "accountant", just happens to know a lot about handling firearms in a combat setting? Coincidence? Oh, sure, I know the detractors will say he's just a boring accountant with a flair for the dramatic. And that's fair. But... how sure are you? It's not like Larry could just come out and admit that MHI is real and that he spent the better part of the last couple decades keeping people safe from monsters. The cover-up has been far too exhaustive, even to the point of using magical means to hide things, and nobody would believe him. That's how the agency-we-won't-name has managed to keep things under wraps for so long. Anyone who does come out with an honest tale about their time in the business is automatically labeled as a kook. And, honestly, books like MHI are probably exactly what the agency-we-won't-name wants to see published because it only helps sell the idea that it's all just light-hearted fiction.

[@jasondelong1683]

You need to review his new book In Defense of the Second Amendment.

[@johnnyguitar6639]

Zombies are not real??? You have never taken public transport in the morning ,have you? I tell you they are very,very real

[@norseczar27]

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