The Totally True Adventures of Gustav Gustavson: Legendary Viking Warrior

By: Morgan Hobbes

Narrated by: Basil Sands

Experience the awesomeness of my unexpected voyage to an undiscovered land where I survive shipwrecks, arena death match spectacles, rampaging rhinoceraptors, naked and rather surly giants, and even dragons! Well, a dragon.... All in my pursuit of fame and glory.

Every word of it is true. Totally true. How do I know? Because it's all about me. Gustav Gustavson, Legendary Viking Warrior.

©2017 Morgan Hobbes (P)2018 Morgan Hobbes

Reminds me of Groo and the spongebob episode where he met the Vikings

A truly entertaining tale of a legendary Viking from
His own perspective. The tale reminds me of Groo and the episode of spongebob where he met the Vikings. It is a truly fun and crazy fast paced romp through an imaginative history based in fact and fiction both and blended to be as entertaining as possible for any and all ages. The tale
Is told with a great accent and wonderful enthusiasm. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

charming mayhem

Light reading where gung ho gets the job done. Freshly original characters, and original solutions. Not your average, same old same old trudge that most quests turn out to be.

Unlike others I didn't find it laugh out loud humorous, but it was fun to listen to.

would definitely like to hear more from this author.

A comedy from the ages bygone

Dear god. I had to stop listening to this at work because I burst out laughing so hard that I was annoying people, and I work at a funeral home. That came at the very beginning when the Great Gustav started naming his titles, and he got to Gustav the Hyperbolist. From there I was just wrecked. This book is better than most comedies I have ever seen. It never lets up and you will be sucked into it.

It reminded me a little of the movie Eric the Viking (in a good way) way more than the tv show Vikings. Hobbes just absolutely comes out all of his guns blazing, and each one of them has a flag that pops out and says "BANG!" on it. His writing style is brilliant, and one must wonder who his comedic inspirations are.

The real star of this show, however, is Basil Sands. Dear Lord, that man IS Gustav. His accent, intonations, and cadence just nail the character. His accent is brilliant, and the way he emphasizes certain words only makes the punchlines even funnier.

Whether it is possible or not, I would love to get more of Gustav's adventures. This is one of those books you'll need to relisten to, just to catch all the jokes you missed the first time through because you laughed too hard.

This book is almost as awesome as Gustav!

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

OK, this was a hilarious and entertaining story. The narrator knocked this one out of the park, too. Gustav is so narcissistic but still absolutely likable. Think Ash from the Evil Dead series but a viking. If you like a little cornball humor with your roguish viking adventure, this book is for you!

Good and chuckle worthy

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Overall it is quite forgettable, but I was happily entertained for the entire duration.

This book is not exactly what I was expecting, and probably not what you are expecting. It does not follow an incompetent viking, but instead a quite capable one that sticks to his code. It just so happens he runs into quite a few ridiculous situations. You know, like hitting on a giantess, or throwing tiny little elves over undead armies, you know, things that make you laugh. Oddly enough, now that I think about, it stays pretty grounded to normal physics. Other than the dragon. And the magic. and the clever half-orc. And the fountain of youth. Yeah, other than those.

I recommend this book if you like fantasy a laugh out loud humor.