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Hateyou

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Guurn said:
Book 1 really felt like a guy trying to figure out how to write for me. The writing gets better as well as the storyline. I almost dropped the series but they are such quick reads i decided to plow on. I skip all the stats stuff, who really cares.
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The stat shit made it unlistenable to me. Reading it would be fine cause you could just skip it but it was terrible for audio. Think I got through book 2 or maybe 3 before I gave up on it. The character was just unrealistic and had zero personality or interesting thoughts. “I must get stronger no matter what, I love killing shit” was so boring. That and being almost godlike at early levels.
 
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Chysamere

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I can't imagine "reading" an audiobook. The very idea of it makes me shudder.

Having someone drone on and on about stats sounds like it would be brain melting.
 
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Hateyou said:
The stat shit made it unlistenable to me. Reading it would be fine cause you could just skip it but it was terrible for audio. Think I got through book 2 or maybe 3 before I gave up on it. The character was just unrealistic and had zero personality or interesting thoughts. “I must get stronger no matter what, I love killing shit” was so boring. That and being almost godlike at early levels.
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I totally dig the "kill and get stronger" vibe. easy to zone out and not a big deal if you don't pay attention a bit. it does get long w/ the numbers, I'm sure reading it would be easy to skip a stats page. I'm on book 8 and plan to finish the series.
 
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Hatorade said:
Not sure Primal hunter is for me, book 1 and swear we have spent more time on stats and skills then everything else combined.
Where I am book 1, is this first book issues and gets better?
william just got full metal suit and Jake just recovered from almost dying to the ambush/raptors
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Pretty much every litrpg backs off from the stat stuff the further the progress gets, to the point where they feel less like LitRPG and more like cultivation. You can only add so many 0s to the end of someone's strength before it becomes repetitive. Primal Hunter is no exception.

However, if you don't like it by the end of book 1 (I think you're close to the end?) you probably won't like any other books. The author describes Primal Hunter as a "relaxed book about a guy who likes to hunt and make potions" and there are a lot of things he does to cut tension to keep it relaxed.

What's funny is in the Chrysalis series I'm reading, the chapters with stat pages are explicitly broken out into individual chapters and the narrator cordially states, "If you don't like it, just hit the skip chapter button".

I skip every state page section in audiobooks and I'm surprised they bother with stat pages except at the end of a book or something. Maybe the authors feel like it's a guide but it has so little to do with even the combat mechanics.
 
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