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View submission: Do NOT Sleep on Dungeon Crawler Carl
I think people bounce off it or fall for it based on what they pay attention to. The humor is usually over-the-top absurdity and silly usually, but not always, and if someone gets it in their head that it's "juvenile" humor, and react negatively to that, then they'll miss the aspects of the humor that aren't. If they're overly paying attention to the rpg game rules leveling up stuff, they're probably missing the character drama and growth arcs. There's a lot about the story, setting, and characters that's a very slow reveal, and so if the lesser-quality first book fails to grab, people don't get to the payoffs.
Comment by AreYouUhGonnaEatThat at 24/02/2025 at 23:16 UTC
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"If someone doesn't like it, they're reading it wrong" is certainly a take.