I'm not a book snob or anything but Dungeon Crawler Carl seems to be 
's favorite book. It's got that redditor stink on it to me. Is it actually any good?
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My wife is obsessed with the litRPG genre as a whole. She's pretty deep into it and has been reading these books for years. Every once in a while, I'll read a page or two "over her shoulder" (she projects to the TV to read) and just...by the gods is the writing bad. Grammar and spelling errors are rampant, and it's clear that they didn't use an editor or had a friend skim through the book for them. The dialogue more oft than not resembles what one would expect from a high school classroom rather than whatever the setting is in the book. The books in this genre just seem extremely poorly written as a whole. Some can look past it, and that's perfectly fine, but it's not something that I can look past as a reader.
Yep. The easiest way I can describe the average litrpg is like "imagine something off fanfiction.net but maybe a little more engaging and not obviously based on pre-existing work", which is fine imo as long as it isn't the ONLY stuff you're reading. I'm pretty picky about grammar/dialogue too but at the end of the day as long as the litrpg I'm reading scratches the 'i wanna read about a magical world' itch I get here to there, I'll forgive a lot of just really clunky writing as long as it is very clearly not AI.
The average piece of fiction on RoyalRoad is Grade S slop though and that's why you'll never catch me reading anything off it - even the stuff I do think genuinely should be published and I'd be fine with displaying on my bookshelf to people - where others can see me. God forbid I have to explain to some guy sitting next to me on the bus wtf litrpg is, I think I'd immediately be like "i've read actual books recently too you know....d-do you want to talk about those instead??"
My number 1 guilty pleasure I've said it before in other threads! I yearn to be like your wife, I can't imagine casting ANYTHING I'm reading onto a TV for even my partner to see lol. I was reading If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub for the first time a few weeks ago on the bus sitting next to someone after I'd grabbed it out of a Little Library otw to the stop and they were very clearly reading it over my shoulder with me & the book basically opens with the main character skinny dipping with his cousin and I was just sitting there reading & thinking to myself "this dude probably thinks I'm a FREAK" lol