Monster Hunter International

De: Larry Correia

Narrado por: Oliver Wyman

Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a 14th story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.

It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit.

It's actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries-old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way.

With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good.... Welcome to Monster Hunter International.

©2009 Larry Correia (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

Entertaining but juvenile

The story was somewhat entertaining but mostly campy, juvenile and underwhelming. Characters and dialogue are very shallow.

MONSTERS ARE REAL !!!!

Well the situation is like this:
MONSTERS ARE REAL most of the creatures from books, fairy tales and movies are real, perhaps they look different, maybe they act different, but without doubt they are real!!!

And in this book Vampires sparkle only if you torch them!!!! :-)

The story of MHI began more than hundred years ago during the infestation of some ungodly creatures;
Some people decided it's time to fight back and they formed an organization, later called " Monster Hunter International" (MHI) , they helped everyone by destroying monsters for a small fee.
Government of that time denied any information about creatures to general public, but it also supported Monster hunting.

"There's a federal bounty paid on undesirable unnaturals.
It's called the PUFF,"
"Perpetual Unearthly Forces Fund,".

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In 1995 because of some strange accident government decided to break up MHI's Monopoly in this business, and the Monster Control Bureau, a special unit in Justice Department, with special powers not only to kill monsters but also witnesess and victims who won't keep silent about their experience, took over and MHI was out of business for a while.


But as usual government can't be the best in everything and in 2000 MHI was brought back online.

Based on the rumours and prophesies "The END" is near!!!
For hunters it means that big payday is coming!!!!

Fantastic!

This book was EXCELLENT. It was a little bit slow at times, but more than made up for that with the action-packed battles. If a book could be badass, this would be that book.

Good Fun, Not Too Serious

This book was good fun. If you want a series that is going to be a serious read, stay away, but this one plays like an enjoyable action movie...which is the obvious intent. I will be reading more in this series.

Stunning Performace, Libertarian Nonsense

I came to this the the Grimnoir Chronicles, which I thoroughly enjoyed. This, well, it's not that, and it's pretty clear that it's both a first book and self-published.

The narrator gives a stunning performance and as a Southerner I appreciate having a story set thoughtfully in the South. That said, I almost couldn't get through the first few chapters because of the heavy-handed use of simple-minded Libertarian gun nut talking points and knee-jerk anti-government stuff. Fortunately, that tapers off a bit as the book goes on.

Still, the evil uber-villain gets a deeply evolved character where everyone who works for the government remains a caricatured by-product of libertarian paranoia. The eponymous Monster Hunters run around hating and resenting everything to do with the corrupt and incompetent government, all while happily collecting windfall paydays from a government fund. So, there's that.

But the performance is stunning, and the writing is excellent when the characters refrain from talking about politics, pretending to know what liberals actually think about the world, or embodying a self-conscious, wooden pretense that they live in a post-racial world. Seriously, when the book sticks to the fantasy part of the story, it's great.

The gun porn will delight gun nuts, and is probably a great anthropological window into the gun nut imagination for the rest of us. The gore levels escalate to the near comical, and the plot is predictable, and yet somehow fresh.

tl;dr: Awesome narrator. Entertaining romp. Echo-chamber, self-affirming red meat for libertarians, and written porn for gun nuts.