I’m currently reading a book called Shoeless Joe which is the book that inspired Field of Dreams. As a big baseball fan it was a must read for me, plus I wasn’t aware it was based on a book until a few years ago.
I finished the Little House books. Always wanted to read them and found them at a flea market. My grandmother loved the show and as a kid I didn’t care about it but as an adult I love it. Always at least a few episodes in my DVR.
Currently on the third book in a series called Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's like a DnD type adventure saga following one man. Pretty fun!
I'm relistening to DCC Book 2 audiobook now, having finished the series to date at Book 7. It was a friend's recommendation and I was very unsure at first, getting strong reddit vibes, but by the crazy ending of Book 2 it was pointless pretending that it hadn't won me over. Carl himself, his basedness and frustration with the whole scenario, is the glue which holds the narrative together and it's what is too conspicuously absent from any other isekai-type or videogame-world story I've encountered. I've gone as far as saying it basically solves these genres. What could come across as ideological messaging, through the game AI's satirising of earth customs, has a shield of plausible deniability since Carl himself hates the game and dismisses all the constructed scenarios as bullshit alien propaganda.
It's also impressive how the author manages to keep increasing the stakes and scenarios from one seemingly inescapable situation to the next. It only gets nuttier as it goes on.
It is a bit redditor that's maybe my biggest complaint, but it's overshadowed by the rest. I've been loving the iron tangle of book 3 so far.
Sounds interesting. Is carl a player that gets sucked into the game?
Yes!
The book starts with him outside trying to wrangle a cat, and while he's out there the entire earth collapses when an alien race mass mines all of their resources at once, the only survivors being those who didn't have a roof over their heads at the right moment. Stairs then open up to the survivors to invite them to an intergalactic dungeon crawler game show. Carl enters with the cat and they become a crawler party to reach as far as they can
It's fun, it's funny, it's gory, I've enjoyed it
Sounds great. Kinda reminds me of a book by Piers Anthony in the 90s of a guy playing a fantasy rpg like game and gets sucked into it
If you liked that then I think you'll get a kick out of this. It's a 7 book series