
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge
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Oliver Wyman
About this listen
Two multiple New York Times best-selling authors team up to expand Larry Correia's Monster Hunter universe!
When marine private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the marine barrack bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to heaven, which, while nice, might be a little boring, or return to earth. The Boss has a mission for him, and he's to look for a sign. He's a marine: He'll choose the mission.
Unfortunately, the sign he's to look for is "57". Which, given the food services contract in Bethesda Hospital, creates some difficulty. Eventually it appears that God's will is for Chad to join a group called Monster Hunters International and protect people from things that go bump in the night. From there, things trend downhill.
Monster Hunter Memoirs is the (mostly) true story of the life and times of one of MHI's most effective - and flamboyant - hunters. Protips for up-and-coming hunters range from how to dress appropriately for jogging (low-profile body armor and multiple weapons) to how to develop contacts among the Japanese yakuza to why it's not a good idea to make billy goat jokes to trolls.
Grunge harkens back to the Golden Days of Monster Hunting, when Reagan was in office, Ray and Susan Shackleford were top hunters, and Seattle sushi was authentic.
©2016 Larry Correia and John Ringo (P)2016 Audible, Inc.Dare I say better than MHI
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highly recommended
laughing out loud from behind the sofa
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A good edition to the Monster Hunter International story
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Love the narration by oliver wyman, really grabs your attention. There are some very funny one liners and laugh out loud moments in both books.
Overall, I have enjoyed the series of monster hunter books and hope they will continue
great series
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Good story
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loved it
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great addition to the monster hunter series
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Enjoyable
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Really surprised me as I read Monster Hunter International etc and enjoyed 'em, and have read other books by John Ringo and got on with them too, but this book reads like Sam Fisher (of E-force fame) wrote it on a bad day, on a short deadline, while suffering from a severe migraine headache. Seeing as Sam Fisher reads like bad Thunderbirds fanfiction, that's saying something. The Internet tells me that this installment indeed reads like fanfiction because it was written by Ringo as fanfiction, the whole thing, Chad included, being one of those fanfictiony spoofs of something that was already arguably 80% spoof, which would be a perfectly reasonable approach if the thing were distributed for free, as fanfiction generally is.
Performance is OK, so there's that.
Mary Sue. Or Marty Stu, if you like.
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Sadly however the book really goes downhill from the start as the main character is immediately revealed to be a complete Gary Sue that is the bestest ever marine, intellectual, musician, swordsman, pick up artist and super coolest guy in the world that totally gets Japan and isn't a total weeb ever times a million.
I mean I could even suffer Early Suebringer from the main HMI series because at least that series is actually exciting when he's not in it but this one is dull as ditchwater and I genuinely wanted the main character to die the entire time. Don't waste your time with this one.
Gary Sue Memoirs: God Awful
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