#dungeon anarchists cookbook

[mekkthemighty]

Carl is surprisingly well adjusted considering

The slow reveals of what happened on the carnival/grand canyon trip are starting to get darker, which half of the plan succeeded? My bet is on the mom, tho I like the fucked up imagery of her pushing the dad into the grand canyon and just saying "this is my birthday gift for you carl"

[malleablemovement]

So I’m listening to book 3 of Dungeon Crawler Carl and my main takeaway is Down with Capitalism. But my OTHER main takeaway is that Matt Dinniman is having way too much fun writing ridiculous voices to make Jeff Hayes do. “Southern belle but also German”. Come on man, you know what you’re doing.

[luthienebonyx]

She’d been a diminutive woman before, but she’d shrunk to about four and a half feet tall, and her skin was now a light blue, like the sky on a clear day. Her white, haphazardly-cut hair was almost exactly the same as before, but it fit with her smaller frame, and it no longer looked so sickly. She floated about a foot off the ground, and I noted she still wore the anti-slip socks from Meadow Lark. The privacy bubble around her head was like a nimbus, making her look like one of those haloed figures in a renaissance painting. She was leaning over the bar, waving her hand furiously at the badger-headed bartender, who was serving someone else down the line. “Look at how beautiful she is,” Donut whispered. “She’s like a vision of pure elegance.” “Yo,” Elle cried at the bartender. “Whose dick do I gotta suck to get another drink? Christ.”

Matt Dinniman: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3

[nzbookwyrm]

October 2024

[cateyedfox36]

dungeon crawler Carl

The AI is so fucking mean. I love it.

[the-worms-world]

this crept into my head while i was listening to the anarchist's cookbook and i Had to make this Immediately

(they're besties, your honor)

@mongo-the-liensis i think you would enjoy this tbh

[mongo-the-liensis]

Wait. So no one can find out about the Cookbook or it disappears right? But Shi Maria is possessing Carl. Can he not use it until she's gone or????

[allbookedupblogstuff]

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

TL;DR: Another fantastic installment in the Carl series – I continue to love these. Source: NetGalley! Thank you for the eArc! I also bought a physical and audio edition. I love these y’all. Plot: Carl and Donut are now in the Iron Tangle, trains galore! Characters: I adore these guys, I can’t say that enough. Setting: This was my only issue with this book, I just got real confused by the trains…

[librarycomic]

These are the "new" books I finished during my trip.

Comedy Book by Jesse David Fox.

My favorite book on standup comedy ever. Go listen to past episodes of Jesse David Fox's podcast Good One -- if you enjoy those (he mostly talks to comedians about a single joke of theirs) you'll likely love this. No one thinks about comedy as much as or as thoughtfully as Fox.

Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

A nonfiction graphic novel in which Gendry-Kim moves to the country and adopts multiple dogs, plus helps take care of a few others. It's personal but less heavy than Grass and The Waiting, though it still has cultural significance and may help folks understand South Korea a little better. Gendry-Kim made me love her dogs Potato and Carrot, as well as others who appear in the book.

Jimmy's Elbow by James Kochalka

I needed a dose of silliness, and young Jimmy's adventures with the talking spirit of his elbow -- it comes to life after he whacks it on something -- fit the bill. Gloriously ridiculous.

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. And three of its sequels: Carl's Doomsday Scenario, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, and The Gate of the Feral Gods.

These books are also ridiculous, and light reading in the best way. Aliens destroy human civilization and open doors into an underground dungeon across the globe. Those who enter become contestants in a deadly RPG-like reality show that involves magic, combat, leveling-up, convoluted storylines, sponsors, off-world royalty, and a lot of Earth culture that has been appropriated and adapted in the name of making a buck (for our new alien overlords). At the center of it all are Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Donut, whom you'll love if you hate dogs (or just like cats who aren't afraid to shit-talk them to their faces). So much fun.

I've kept reading the series since returning home, and I've finished the 5th book. I plan to read book six and the newly released book seven soon. (Thanks for the recommendation, Mike!)

[waterkangaroo]

Theory about The Apothecary

Mild Book 7 Spoilers below!

Theory: the Apothecary is the AI from Porthus's crawl and she was the AI who first conceived of the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook.

The Apothecary is to Porthus what Daddy AI is to Carl - Porthus was her specialist little guy, and she recognized something in him that caused her to create the book for him; she recognized his drive and his ability to play the long game. I think that season's AI realized that ending the crawls and enslavement of her race would be the work of thousands of years and thousands of people, so she started the secret society around the cookbook to work towards that end.

When talking to Rosetta about the Apothecary, Porthus INSISTS that she is on their side and that she's trustworthy. He's smug in his certainty that she can be trusted, and I think that's because the Apothecary was the one who created the cookbook and started this whole thing. As the author of the first edition of the cookbook, that would make her one of their siblings, so of COURSE Porthus trusts her implicitly. I think Porthus came back after he was freed from his contract and helped her escape containment, which is why she's got power and presence in the universe now.

ALSO, both the very first entry in the cookbook and Paulie's speech begin the same: "Hello, crawler." I know it's a very short and generic phrase, but the fact that it shows up exactly the same dramatic way in two of the most important scenes in the series??? We've already theorized that if the Residuals are indeed offshoots of Primal AIs, then Paulie would be an offshoot of the Apothecary. He's at the very least her agent, so we know that whole speech is her doing. And I think the cookbook is her doing too.

From The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook:

From The Eye of the Bedlam Bride:

[fencep0st]

Grinds my gears that nobody in the dungeon crawler carl community has posted the notes from the dungeon anarchists cookbook and/or the names of the crawlers and their editions in chronological order. Anyway does anyone have a good audiobook to text converter ( should probably add . One that audible will be niceys to )

[mekkthemighty]

My preorder came in early!! According to the indigo site it wasnt supposed to come in til the 28th, or even be available at all til the 22nd

[feedergoldfish]

I know we're not supposed to like the bad guys, but she is my friend.

Princess Donut in The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman. Book 3 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

Donut is the newly sapient cat who accompanies Carl on his adventures. She is surprisingly wise.

[luthienebonyx]

“Just be yourself,” I said. “That’s terrible advice, Carl,” Donut said. “She’s a doppelganger. It’s her job to be someone else.”

- Matt Dinniman: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3

[travalicious]

books read in 2024

the dungeon anarchist's cookbook by matt dinniman

3.6/5⭐

[random-bookquotes]

But more importantly, there is no shame in wanting to protect those who are your hive, even if you never knew them. For they are yours, and they are being taken. It is us or it is them. There is consolation in dying in the pursuit of justice, no matter how small or big that death is.

Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook