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Loading... Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge (1) (original 2016; edition 2017)by Larry Correia (Author), John Ringo (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Interesting concept for an alternate world. The main character clearly was shaped by his serially satyristic father, and penultimate liberal causes "uber alles" mother; so what else could he do, he joined the Marines. A miraculous resurrection from a Beirut bombing redirects him to an allied but sort of different vocation as a monster hunter. No surprise, he is good at it. Lively action as virtually every known fantasy monster makes an appearance. ( ) This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at WordPress, Blogspot, Booklikes & Librarything by Bookstooge’s Exalted Permission. Title: Grunge Series: Monster Hunter Memoirs #1 Author: John Ringo, Larry Correia Rating: 2 of 5 Stars Genre: SFF Pages: 320 Format: Kindle digital edition Synopsis: Oliver Gardenier, aka Gary Stu, is a boy wonder with some seriously messed up parents. He joins the marines in defiance of his mother and ends up talking to St Peter and given a mission back on Earth: to hunt Monsters. Joining up with Monster Hunters International, Oliver details his adventures. He also details his seriously messed up theological thoughts on Jesus and God. And just in case you forget, he also states, over and over and over, how successful with women he is. My Thoughts: If this had been just an MHI story, it would have been awesome. 4stars easy, pushing 4 1/2. First thing that pushed it down was Gardenier’s continual references to his womanizing. He justifies it by saying he doesn’t want to leave a widow and orphans behind when he inevitably dies on the job, but that is so much BS. He’s probably leaving a trail of byblows who are growing up without a dad and string of woman who wanted more than a night. Those excuses lead into the second, and bigger, reason. Theology. Ringo, and he is the author of this book, not Correia, presents sin as something just kind of ‘meh’ and that Jesus is our Dude who tells God to chill out on our behalf. In fact, Ringo/Gardenier states that you have to do something REALLY bad to go to hell now. Ringo threw around enough biblical names, terms, etc that it is obvious he’s at least familiar with Scripture but simply choosing to twist it to allow him to do whatever he wants. Once past those, like I said, it is a tremendous MHI story. I’ll be reading the next book but with some serious reservations. no reviews | add a review
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"When Marine Private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to Heaven or return to Earth. The Boss has a mission for him. He's a Marine: he chooses the mission. 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"-- No library descriptions found.
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