Cane Whirling Lunacy

A LitRPG Adventure (Vaudevillain, Book 3)

By: Alex Wolf

Narrated by: Austin Rising

Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you might blow up a space station or two!

Dylan feels like he’s made it in life: Menagerie achieved victory, and Vert has contacted him to request the use of Dr. Zlo as the next big raid boss. The player has all sorts of maniacal plans in mind, from a new getaway car to death rays.

It’s too bad Dylan’s newfound fame is attracting attention from everyone. Random players are always on the lookout to join Dr. Zlo in his next crime, but their methods don’t resonate with the wacky villain. To top it all off, his once-friend John returns once more: bent on showing Dylan the correct way to play a videogame.

Between new players, the interference of a hardcore gamer, and Vert’s ineptitude, Dylan decides it’s time to make the ultimate villainous weapon and hold the world hostage!

©2022 Alex Wolf (P)2022 Mountaindale Press

Certainly a good read and a fine ending but I want a little more

I enjoy getting the same antics and humor out of the characters and there was a good amount of growth among the characters. Pretty much everything was resolved. With the exception of maybe a romance that was being set up (?) didn’t really need resolution just MC to realize it.
The battles can be interesting but there is so much going on it can be hard to follow. I had particular trouble with the climactic battle mostly because there was a timer that didn’t really match up with what was happening. I’m sorry you can say there are 20 seconds left but if there is 30 seconds of dialogue you can’t then say one second has passed.

A Fun Listen and a Good Ending

I admit I listened on x2 speed bc I I wanted to get straight to the action and finish the story. Still a great ending to a story

Entertaining, Educational, and Fun

The story was entertaining and the performance is top-notch. I also enjoyed the amount of research the author put in to make the in-game design ideas frequently adhere to some fundamental principles of science and physics. Overall, a fun story across all three books in the series.

Camp At It's Best!

Classic Supervillain Camp. A must read series for lovers of super hero centric fantasy settings. I received an advanced copy of this book and loved every moment of it. have fun while reading!

DAMMIT! WHAT A AMAZING SERIES!

if somehow you've started this series here in book 3.... first off, what's wrong with you and secondly stop and get the other 2 books and listen because IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT. Great characters, great story, great side characters.... GREAT EVERYTHING! Basically a perfect series.

WORLD DOMINATION

The good doctor is at it again this has been my favorite of the series some of the other characters get a little more light shone on them Jack is one of my favorites. This has been a satisfying series and I can only hope that there is more to come

this is a great series

I love this series and am looking forward to the next ,


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one scene had me a bit rolling my eyes with a countdown that the last 60 seconds lasted like 2 chapter xD

most excellent

well, im impressed. I really hope this wasn't a stand alone trilogy. I would love to keep reading this series. hope there's another entry to come.

Dick Dastardly and the Wacky Races

Two of the great cartoon villains from the 1960's were Professor Fate (and Max) from the Great Race, and Dick Dastardly (and Muttley) from the Wacky Races.

Before Book 3 are 1&2, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Dr. Zlo's player, Dylan, wants to play the game to have fun. He's not so invested in winning, he just wants to play his ridiculous villain. He doesn't want exploits, he wants good role-playing. The real world is sometime in the near future, not too much different from now. It's just a VR game and Dylan wants to have fun playing an evil genius. I've gone through books 1&2 twice now, it's one of my favorite series.

Book 3 starts with Dylan getting offered a dodgy contract from the game company. Hmmm. But he has other plans. Dr. Zlo has now made numerous buildings and vehicles, and they've been destroyed. So now, he wants to introduce ... the Zlomobile! The world's greatest car. To build it, he'll need to perform a number of crimes for the components needed. Once it's built, the Zlomobile has to be properly introduced, so he stages a Great Wacky Race, inviting all heroes and villains to race against him. As his wingman, he has Cass, his loyal butler. And like all evil villains, he plans to cheat.

In one of the build-up scenes, he's secured a minor item from a museum, ready to leave, but one of the guards is interested in his plan. The player realizes that the guard is trying to stall for time. But Dr. Zlo would revel in this interest, so he monologues about his cunning scheme, just like a supervillain would.

It's glorious. This is the best book so far. I'll definitely listen to this one several times. Highly recommended.

The narrator does a better evil villain than Jack Lemmon. His other character voices are also fun to listen to. I laughed outloud more at the lunacy in this book than any other book or movie.

this was a great book and it has been a great seri

this was a great book and it has been a great series. that being said I think this would be a great place to end the series.