Finished Tripwire by Lee Child, third book in the Jack Reacher series.

Ending was expected, but I guess if you have such a long running series, pretty much ending will always be expected. Bad guy meets Reacher, bad guy loses, Reacher wins. Fun to read though, which is the main point. Going to keep reading them.

Don’t think it ticked any of the Bingo boxes though.

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


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    I feel like I’ve responded with this series several times already, but I’m not the faster reader.

    Still listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. I’m on book 7, The Inevitable Ruin. I’ve listened all the way through twice. And I’ve heard the first couple a few more. A friend started the series recently so I started over to listen with her. I don’t mind at all. I really do love these books.

    After this, I plan to finish the Red Rising series. I haven’t read the latest book in that yet. I’d also like to listen to the new series by James SA Corey. The Expanse series is probably my favorite of all time.

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      Is Dungeon Crawler Carl good? I wanted to find a light funny fantasy book and was deciding between that and Goblin Quest and decided to try the GQ first.

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        I am a big fan of Dungeon Crawler Carl, especially the audiobook. If you aren’t used to listening to books or you had trouble in the past, this is a perfect book to try it again.

        It’s not going to be the best book you’ve ever read, but I promise promise promise you will never get bored. I found myself laughing out loud in my car a few times, and I teared up once.

        The narrator, however, is the best I’ve ever heard and it’s not even close. I was absolutely blown away. This man could be doing very well for himself in cartoons and video games. You’ll feel like listening to a cartoon, which is why I say it’s an easy book to try on audio.

        If you do listen, let me know what you think! If you get to the later books, I’m always looking for someone to discuss theories with!

        I haven’t heard of GQ, but I see on Goodreads, I see a friend of mine gave it 5 stars. (He rated DCC at a 4, for what it’s worth). How do you like it so far?

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          It’s alright.

          Its shortish and I am like halfway through, and so far have yet to be forced to smile. It’s an interesting idea of doing it from the Goblins perspective, but I don’t feel enough time was spent in the beginning to get me attached to the character enough. I also just feel like it could be better in general, maybe it will be in the last half.

          I haven’t done audiobook in a while. Last one I did was one of Sanderson’s Stormlight archive books and it was a little overwhelming while doing anything that requires any amount of focus.

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            Yeah. When I first tried audio, I couldn’t do it at all. I just kept missing too much. I had to teach myself how to do it and once it clicked, I couldn’t go back.

            I find it helps me stay on task when doing tedious tasks while listening, but I can’t work my day job and listen either.

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              So I started the audiobook and my brain can’t get past the fact the narrator sounds like Kronk from Emperors new groove…

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                Wow good ear! I didn’t notice that at first, but the narrator did model the character on Patrick Warburton! As the book progresses, Carl evolves into his own distinctive voice.

                I won’t say much more about it because I don’t want to spoil it, but if you make to book 6, the real Patrick Warburton has a cameo.

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                  Lol that’s hilarious, can’t wait.

                  Its entertaining so far, but I can only really listen in the car. But my commute is long, so not too much of a problem.

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                    It’s a good way to break up a long drive! But uh…don’t listen with kids in the car.

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            I have yet to read Goblin Quest, but I do really like that author. His Liberiomancer series is really good.

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              So I am onto the second book of Goblin Quest and my opinion has only slightly shifted. If you take it more as an anthropological take on goblin society its kind of fun and interesting.

              This would be even better if it were a side series off a much larger world that ran into goblins, hobgoblins and ogres from time to time to help give color to their idiosyncrasies compared to the adventures whose narrative you read from.

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          It starts out pretty light too, and I like how there’s some good deepening of the commentary of the society too.