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JM Sudar dreams of someday walking into a bookstore and seeing a book of his own for sale. After hearing his wife lament that she forgot to write her Cannonball review _again_, he decided to pick up a controller and give it a try himself.

jmsudar's Reviews:

The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript by Author Unknown

May 4, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

The Voynich Manuscript is a famously untranslated work. I purchased a reproduction from The Galobart Books, who make high quality parchment recreations of famous works. In terms of what I read, there’s some companion work to this, but the real appeal is the opportunity to just peruse a work that otherwise only exists in a museum. I first found out about this manuscript from a Cracked.com article a million years ago. I’m going to see if I can embed the content of that article into […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Author Unknown

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Author Unknown ·
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The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

May 3, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

Another short one here primarily because the parts I most want to talk about in this story are spoilers. Book three of Dungeon Crawler Carl is top notch. The world continues to expand, the action gets more intense, and Donut and Carl’s relationship (the driving heart of the story) continues to deepen. In book 3 we have an additional confound: Mordecai is temporarily whisked away. Here we get an option for Carl’s role to strengthen, as he’s forced into the adult role keeping his garbage […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
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Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

April 27, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario continues the saga of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Let’s get the important stuff out of the way: if you liked the first book, you’ll like the second. There’s more of the same stuff featuring Carl and the adorable Princess Donut as they make their way through the complex world of the dungeon. The emotions continue to build, the story matures, and the characters get deeper and continue to move away from the tropes that tend to plague an Isekai-esque thing like this. In […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
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Hubris Maximus

Hubris Maximus by Faiz Siddiqui

April 26, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

I am always here for a takedown of Elon Musk. Increasingly however, because I’m always down for it and I follow news related to his steady stream of lies and false claims, I already know what these tell-all books are alleging. Now only is that the case in Hubris Maximus, but also this book occasionally feels like it was written with AI. What do I mean by that? I mean there are constant restatements of what was said a paragraph before; like, factual statements that list […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Faiz Siddiqui

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Faiz Siddiqui ·
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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

April 19, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

I was first introduced to Dungeon Crawler Carl by my wife, squealing with delight and laughter at a dozen hilarious things in the first couple chapters. I was a little hard of a sell for her as I think that a lot of these “normal white redditor-style human gets transferred to video game irl” tend to be very fappy and poorly written. Add in that it’s self-published and that’s a recipe for disaster in my book. The first few chapters of DCC seemed to support this: Carl […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Matt Dinniman

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Matt Dinniman ·
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Imagine a World

Imagine a World by Rob Gonsalves

April 6, 2025 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

This is another super lazy one for me, but this time because the book is primarily a picture book. Rob Gonsalves came into my awareness through a BlueSky post, I think. He draws beautiful pictures where the scene transitions throughout the picture. I’m including my favorite work from the book below as an example. It’s my favorite because the stanza on this page talks about how small steps can lead us to great things, and you can see that in earnest with a picture like […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Rob Gonsalves

jmsudar's CBR17 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Rob Gonsalves ·
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