The Culling of Man, Craig Kobayashi
The Culling of Man, Craig Kobayashi
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The Culling of Man
A LitRPG Apocalypse

Author: Craig Kobayashi

Narrator: Michael Norman Johnson

Unabridged: 21 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2022


Synopsis

Slacker stoner hero has to try to save the world from the apocalypse. Fortunately, he's a gamer...
Garath was a gamer that spent his time adventuring in magical worlds behind a keyboard. He was exploring one of those very worlds when the planet that he actually inhabited became suddenly, and drastically more interesting.
The ability to shapeshift into a house cat or summon a demon to serve him were things that were only possible in video games and epic fantasy novels, until they weren't. He may not have had the luxury of a controller or mouse to explore his new abilities, but Garath's dream came true when Earth was fundamentally altered. More akin now to the RPG games that he loved so much than the 9-5 grind he'd woken up to that morning. He's a quick study, though, and learns quickly that this new Earth isn't just fun and games. The tutorial kills everybody. 
Well not everybody. Almost everybody. Garath and a motley crew of friends and neighbors band together to survive. They are forced to work together using their new abilities to hold off the increasingly deadly waves of monsters. 
The Peril's Prodigy series features 30 unique Classes, a human racial ability to shapeshift, character leveling, some things you really just can't un-hear, and a look into the future of this new Earth. It will make you laugh. It will make you cringe. And if you're anything like Garath, it'll make you wonder where in the hell on this new video game Earth were all the god damn hot elves?
***Full disclosure: This is not a harem novel. There are no hot elves.

Reviews

Goodreads review by GaiusPrimus on November 29, 2019

What a fun book! As I've mentioned before, I'm really digging these apocalypse style books. There's a lot of good stuff in this book and I disagree with a lot of the negative reviews comparing this book to more established series. It stands on its own and I'm looking forward to the next one.......more

Goodreads review by Logan on February 14, 2020

A lot more time is needlessly devoted to developing the game system than the characters. I made it 76% of the way through the book and found myself no longer caring what happened. If you don't care about the characters, you've got very little to pull you through.......more

Goodreads review by Russell on January 01, 2020

This was a pleasant surprise of a book. There is a lot of room for improvement, but overall I found the story interesting. This also seems to be the author's debut novel, so I feel like this was a promising start and I look forward to the next one. For those interested in more detail, this is a story......more

Goodreads review by Johnny on November 14, 2019

Book one Mistakes: I found little mistakes scattered throughout the book. Things like extra words in sentences and details that didn’t make any sense. How would a box of twinkies be hard to put in your inventory? A pallet of twinkies would be much harder to get into the inventory if you didn’t break......more

Goodreads review by Rhonda on November 30, 2019

Fun read You've created an interesting storyline with a creative evolving world. I really enjoyed it and can't wait for Book 2. Thank You......more