Bookclub Discussion Questions for Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

 

I'm really excited for the Book Detectives to be on this case! If you are going to read this I highly recommend listening to the audiobook. It's very fun and will make you laugh out loud! However it's not only fun and games cause the game is risking your life to earn your place in the galaxy. I will be posting the questions I make for my bookclub every week. So please you these if you need inspiration as to what to discuss with your own bookclub. I would love to hear about how the discussions go if anyone uses these! 

Warning ⚠️  these questions will have spoilers!! I will be marking which Chapters they are for so you can avoid spoilage. 

Chapter 1 through 4

1. Given the choice between going into the dungeon and staying on the Earth's surface, which would you have picked? 

2. What do we think of Carl?

3. Why do you think Donut jumped out the windows?

4. Do you think it's fair that the Earth is getting mined of its elements by aliens? Do you think the people of earth were actually aware of this threat?

5. Why is Donut considered a crawler right away? 

6. Is Carl handling everything too well? 

7. What do we think of Mordeci? 

8. Is it really bad that humans want to know why? Does that stop us from being able to deal with things?

9. Viewers are how one survives in the dungeon, does this feel like a metaphor for modern life? 

10. Was there too much information dropped in the first chapters? 

Chapter 5 thru 11 

1. Mordeci keeps mentioning past crawls, are we concerned about how those went?

2. Do you think that Donut eating the treat was a good thing? Or should Carl have sold the treat?

3. What do you think of the image that the dungeon wants Carl to have?

4. What do we think of Donut being able to talk and having better stats than Carl?

5. Do you think that the thing with Donuts crown will come up again? 

6. What did you think of the conversation Donut and Carl have when he tries to split the party?

7. Should Carl and Donut take advantage of the fancy that the ai has taken to Carl?

8. What do you think of the safe spaces? 

9. What do you think of the first boss battle?