The legal and safe alternative to drugs

Introduction

Drugs are bad. We all know that. Still want to get absolutely hooked on something without the risk of diseases? Well, now you can. So what can you get hooked on? A book series. Which series? Dungeon Crawler Carl.

What is Dungeon Crawler Carl?

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a series of books in the LitRPG genre. Here’s the way I explain it. It’s like a dungeon crawler type game, but you read it instead of playing it. It has all the elements of your typical dungeon crawler, monsters, stats, boss battles, etc. It’s better though because you read it and can get fully sucked in without causing damage and pain to your wrists.

So how did I get hooked?

I got into this in the first place after having it recommended by a friend. I was asking for book recommendations and that’s one of the first ones I got. I figured I’ll check it out. What do I have to lose. I wasn’t sure I would be able to follow what was happening because I haven’t played a lot of RPG type games. Boy, was I wrong. I was intrigued by the audiobook summary alone. That summary reads as follows.
The apocalypse will be televised!
A man. His ex-girlfriend’s cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the
most entertaining way possible.
In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth – from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds – collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.
The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and
loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.
Only a few dare venture inside. But once you’re in, you can’t get out. And what’s worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase
to the next level down, or it’s game over. In this game, it’s not about your strength or your dexterity. It’s about your followers, your views. Your clout.
It’s about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.
You can’t just survive here. You gotta survive big.
You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that “it” factor, you may just find yourself with
a following. That’s the only way to truly survive in this game – with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching
from across the galaxy.
They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it’s anything but a game.
How’s that for an attention grabber? Also, that first sentence. It does the same thing. It reads as follows.
The transformation occurred at approximately 2:23 AM Pacific Standard Time.
How’s that or an opening line?

So what’s next? Slight spoilers ahead.

So basically the story opens with like every building on earth going poof and everyone in them going bye bye. Carl is outside without pants because the cat, Princess Donut, has randomly decided to jump out the window. Good for Donut in a way because that saved both of them. Right after this, a weird AI thing tells all surviving humans that the planet is currently being mined for requested elements and if they want to reclaim their lost matter, they have to complete an eighteen level world dungeon. The actual message says a lot more, but I’ll leave you with that.

My thoughts and closing.

So this series won’t let you put it down. It keeps you engaged constantly. I can safely say this, and I’m only on ook four out of seven. The world of the story just sucks you in and won’t let you go. It’s extremely addictive. Welcome to an addiction that’s actually good for you and good for your friends. Spread the word. Let the dungeon suck you in. You won’t be sorry you did.