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The Witcher (novel) in English

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First post, by robertmo

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The Witcher novel has finally been translated into English.
Don't forget you should read all the short stories first.

1. The Road with No Return
2. A Grain of Truth
3. The Lesser Evil
4. The Edge of the World
5. The Last Wish
6. Season of Storms
7. A Question of Price
8. The Witcher
9. The Voice of Reason
10. The Bounds of Reason
11. A Shard of Ice
12. Eternal Flame
13. A Little Sacrifice
14. Sword of Destiny
15. Something More
16. Saga
17. Something Ends, Something Begins

You have to read them all in one reading if you want to remember the plot. 😀

Oh..., and don't even try to think about watching a tv series (based on few short stories) or movie (based on tv series 😉) before...

Last edited by robertmo on 2023-07-02, 02:28. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 16, by vladstamate

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As a big coincidence I am actually replaying Witcher 2 now. I will check the shorts out.

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Reply 2 of 16, by robertmo

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Just don't forget it had also been translated to many other languages before. It is best to read it in your native language cause of its rather advanced vocabulary.

Reply 3 of 16, by Azarien

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robertmo wrote:

Just don't forget it had also been translated to many other languages before. It is best to read it in your native language cause of its rather advanced vocabulary.

I heard that the English translation is unfortunately one of the worst, at least when it comes to the older books.
I only read the original. The text is full of archaisms, unusual dialects, wordplays etc.
This makes it very hard to translate faithfully.

Reply 7 of 16, by digger

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Anybody here been watching the Netflix series?

"Toss a coin to your Witcher, O' Valley of Plenty!"

Reply 8 of 16, by buckeye

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digger wrote on 2021-01-04, 00:10:

Anybody here been watching the Netflix series?

"Toss a coin to your Witcher, O' Valley of Plenty!"

Got season 1 DVD for xmas, already finished binge watching it. After reading the books it's a little disappointing in that
some of the monsters (strigga) didn't look as expected. Wished somebody else played Ciri but Geralt and Yennefer
seemed "spot on". Hopefully season 2 will wrap up quickly.

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Reply 10 of 16, by robertmo

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Hussite Trilogy world map 1434

Reply 11 of 16, by robertmo

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Europe 1434

Reply 12 of 16, by robertmo

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1434 south Europe

Reply 13 of 16, by robertmo

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These are real maps of 1434.
They are not fictional in any place.

Reply 14 of 16, by Grzyb

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Those maps are overly simplified.
They are supposed to illustrate the Hussite Wars, but there's no Bohemia on them? Really?
I would prefer something like this - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common … ull_of_1356.png - only updated by several decades.

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Reply 16 of 16, by robertmo3

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correction to the order:

1. The Road with No Return
2. A Grain of Truth
3. The Lesser Evil
4. The Edge of the World
5. The Last Wish
6. Season of Storms (without epilogue)
7. A Question of Price
8. The Witcher
9. The Voice of Reason
10. The Bounds of Reason
11. A Shard of Ice
12. Eternal Flame
13. A Little Sacrifice
14. Sword of Destiny
15. Something More
16. Blood of Elves
17. Time of Contempt
18. Baptism of Fire
19. The Tower of the Swallow
20. The Lady of the Lake
21. Something Ends, Something Begins
22. epilogue from Season of Storms

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