The Weirdest Noob

De: Arthur Stone, Mikhail Yagupov - translator

Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins

Something quite odd is happening in Second World - the planet's foremost MMORPG. Something that's causing alliances to be broken, and friendships, forgotten. A worthless low-level mine becomes the stage of vicious battles, its burned ruins suddenly contested by the game's toughest clans. Every border is controlled, and every road in the province blocked off. The weak players and NPCs alike are subjected to non-stop violent raids courtesy of Eastern invaders. And the strong...the strong are scouring the virtual world for the culprit - the weirdest noob the game has ever seen.

©2017 Arthur Stone (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Worth it

Not gonna lie a truly boring start but it does indeed pick up and you just can’t help but wonder what’s this mofo gonna do next

Excellent LITrpg!

Slow start but worth it after chapter 3. This book has Some original elements mixed in with the over use of the word noob.. My favorites being 1. He doesn’t appear to be that tough because his stats are hidden under a low level and 2. The spell “clean slate” which has the potential for him to keep starting over at level 10 with any race while keeping his stats. This could spin off to a hero going on many quests but hiding among the masses. Has some fun potential if done well. So far, it has been done very well!

Loved it!!

This was a nice foray into LITRPG!!! It’s funny, interesting and has some great twists!!

Bad audio setup

Two books in this audio but it starts with book two, then goes to books one.

Noob, noob, noob.

What a noob. You're a noob. Such a noob. Noobs like you are too noobish to do even the noobiest of tasks that normal noobs can do. Quit noobing around. Stupid level 0 noob.

Seriously, the word noob is horrifically overused during the first five hours. There are several words that could replace it just fine and NOT detract from the story or dialogue. How many times can one person call another a noob in the same conversation?

Most of the characters seem to have a lewd quality about them, aside from the main character, and treat people of lower level with complete disdain. This definitely gives the world a different feel and creates a cutthroat environment. It seemed that only a select few players are decent people and the NPC's were also well mannered as games usually make them out to be.

A confusing aspect of the game is the prompts. I was lost several times because the prompts we're too similar and it sometimes sounded like a single prompt was read like six times for a specific achievement.

The world was slowly being built up throughout the book and the fact that people worked to convert in-game currency to real money made it that much more interesting. In-game slaves? That's pretty cool. An unstoppable bugged NPC called Bug? That's also pretty cool. Dude gets a sex change?? Okay...what a twist! I give the book an overall of four stars because I enjoyed the story so much and I wasn't going to let the word "noob" influence my review heavily.

There are a few things that I hope get cleared up in the second book because they didn't make sense but I'll be listening to the second book nonetheless.

Weirdest Noob

Great book.
It had enough of the rpg aura about it without becoming all numbers.
Great story with just enough action and intrigue to wrap everything into a good feeling of what’s about to happen.
I liked the narration, it was well done.

best book I've enjoyed in a while!

great story - engaging narration!

so good I had to leave a written review

buy it - listen to it - you won't be sorry

Stick with it!

The first 2/3 of the story gets WAAYYY into explaining every detail about what at game is and how 2nd World is played however if you stick with it and read the next books you will find a compelling story that’s is worth the buy

breath control

you get used to it, but you can hear almost every intake of breath. great story, voices are solid, read a little fast.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the next book...

This is probably the weirdest mmorpg book that I've listened to, to date, and that makes it pretty dang weird indeed! This player (Ross), instead of turning off all the updates and stats, actually welcomed them (as he had no idea about the game and what he was doing)... So as one reviewer put it, the story is very crunchy, with numbers and updates. Initially, that would pull me out of the story, but then I grudgingly accepted it, and finally realised that it was laughable and fun! The story is actually quite mesmerizing as we follow Ross' adventure, so yeah, it's crunchy, but with a nummy nougat finish!
I've got to say that the narrator, Kevin T Collins, isn't going down as my favorite narrator, not by any means, but he's not offensive either, and he didn't mispronounce anything, either! To me, he just seemed kinda' bland... C'est la vie!
Now, I've got to say, that in spite of all the "crunchy" bits, I'm actually looking forward to listening to the next story!