It's easily one of the first No-No's of any higher education classes. These are the kinds of characters you create when you are just learning how to write short stories. Characters like this belong at the bottom pile of fan fiction stories. That my fellow readers is literally, Text-Book Definition of a "Mary Sue" Character. He's a savant violinist, has an IQ greater than Einstein, Master of at least two different martial arts, A Top-Tier Marksman, and a Custom Gun Engineer. By the time he was nine years old he had taught himself fluency in close to 9 different languages at-least two of which are considered dead or lost languages. By preschool he was so smart he was doing algebra. Chad's dad dishes out grades based on how good the sex was, and his mother disapproved of everything Chad does. The main character Chad is raised during the late 50's, 60's, and 70's by a College Professor father and a mother who, while being a notable anthropologist spends most of her time mingling in political circles advocating for rights and notoriously against any form of violence. Touching on important events throughout the main characters life, with no real connection between any of them. This book has something like seven to eight different short stories in it. Monster Hunter Memoirs is told from the perspective of a possibly dead hunters journal. However, it also allows steaming rotten garbage filth like Ringo to pollute the waters. This is very rarely done, if ever, and allows fresh works to come in. I find it very interesting that he's opened the world of MHI for other authors to put in their own works. We all know and love Larry Correia's work from all of his previous books. He does an amazing performance and I look forward to seeing more books read by him. So it is with a very heavy heart that I give this book a very bad review. I was very excited to see a new one coming out so close to my birthday. I own all the other books in this series and have thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them. Do not purchase this steaming pile of crap. Grunge harkens back to the Golden Days of Monster Hunting, when Reagan was in office, Ray and Susan Shackleford were top hunters, and Seattle sushi was authentic. Protips for up-and-coming hunters range from how to dress appropriately for jogging (low-profile body armor and multiple weapons) to how to develop contacts among the Japanese yakuza to why it's not a good idea to make billy goat jokes to trolls. Monster Hunter Memoirs is the (mostly) true story of the life and times of one of MHI's most effective - and flamboyant - hunters. Eventually it appears that God's will is for Chad to join a group called Monster Hunters International and protect people from things that go bump in the night. Which, given the food services contract in Bethesda Hospital, creates some difficulty. Unfortunately, the sign he's to look for is "57". The Boss has a mission for him, and he's to look for a sign. When marine private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the marine barrack bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to heaven, which, while nice, might be a little boring, or return to earth. Two multiple New York Times best-selling authors team up to expand Larry Correia's Monster Hunter universe!
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