What the fuck did I just read
>>25336912Eric of Melnibone with the serial number filed off.
>>25336912Slop
>>25336920Where do I start with Eric. I've heard it's close to Berserk
Edgy retellings of classic fairy tales for the first few books
>>25336925Incidentally those were the best books.Should've stuck to episodic short stories of Witcher shenanigans.Once it become destiny and world war it lost any charm it had
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>>25336912I've read the main series of books, except for season of storms and the new oneI would re-read them again, not great not terrible, a dirty pleasure. I was in a better mental place when I started reading these books and it was the first time I really started reading books at all (being around 14 years old). I had a kind of sense of hope and tranquility that I don't have now and these books will forever be associated with that period in my life
>>25336930Pretty much. It lost the plot when it ironically became about Ciri's storyline. I have no idea if the new one is any good.
>>25336912The series is actually fuccking garbage. I can't remember anything about Geralt's adventure except the she-elf complaining she got pregnant from a gangbang and Geralt deflecting two arrows mid-flight. Ciri's part is only good when she finds Bonhart.
I read these when I was like 16 or something not sure. I remember it being good and I enjoyed the politics of mages and in politics in general the most interesting aspect of the book
I watched the hated netflix series before reading the books.I found the world and characters intriguing. I was thinking, that this is very interesting, can't wait to read the book to find more in depth story behind these characters.Then I read the books and there were interesting concepts and flashes, but it felt just like that, just flashes. I kept waiting for the real story to begin, and it never did.I'm talking about characters like Milva or Queen Meve etc. I feel like there was story there, but it was never told.The story felt way too wide and shallow. I wanted more depth.
>>25336923NTA but I started by reading the elric omnibus
>>25337190>I watched the hated netflix series before reading the books.>I'm talking about characters like Milva or Queen Meve etc.You watched fanfiction.
>>25337204Nigga I mentioned that I did read all the books and am talking about my feeling AFTER reading.I too thought that maybe the series (as they always do) just cut all the content, but the book offered nothing more. He just teases you by introducing this cool character and hinting that there is something deeper to come, yet after a few pages we'll never hear of the character again. Except a few mentions there and here. It feels like implying there is a story but it isn't told.
>>25337217There is a story, but there isn't a story for every single piece of world-building like Game of Thrones. I suppose that's what the showrunners wanted. Only two things are really relevant for the short stories: Geralt's defiance of fate and his eventual acceptance of it. The series didn't really know what it wanted to say: it was at once an epic magical journey with Ciri, a LOTR-lite adventure with Geralt, and half-assed political intrigue with the Lodge. All three sucked ass. That doesn't mean random pieces of lore about characters are relevant.
I don't think i recall i single plotpoint drom the saga, maybe besides the nymph archer who swore a lot and that vampire pacifist, they were funny. I've read it as a teen. The short stories are the only ones i remember anything of
>>25336912Pulp trash on a par with GRRM.
>>25337230This nigga gets it.
>>25337146>the she-elf complainingIt's pretty keked that you thought she's a she-elf when she's clearly a human but characters in the book also kept confusing her for a she-elf.
>>25336912A very extensive liberal anti-war pro-individualistic message, dressed up in fantasy costumes to be more palatable for modern teenagers. The games largely butcher it, especially with completely misunderstanding the point of the White Winter. You should read the Hussite Trilogy if it's translated into your language (don't think it's in English). That's by far his best work. Sapkowski's actual beliefs are kind of cringe, but he is very smart.>>25336920nonsense, Elric is a metaphor for self-destructive hedonism and the fall of the British empire
...Or perhaps the very best way to grasp Sapkowski's beliefs is to read his essay on the Arthurian myth and chivalric literature in general as a romantic antithesis to war, a reactionary movement to the horrific reality of real-world chivalry, and how it was written largely by former warriors, who wrote of a more beautiful world that they would have wanted to be knights within, rather than the terrible moral swamp it actually was. Such writings inevitably informed modern high fantasy, but those informed would then not really know WHY those stories were told such as they were. The Witcher, while affected far too much by audience reception and deformed thus over time, is little but grounding that romantic vision with a bit of realism, but more importantly, it actually deliberately does this, rather than GRRM's blind lashing out against Tolkien.Regardless, I hope you know a slavic language!
>>25338318That's honestly how much I remember from these books
>>25336912Horrible covers.
ASOIAF but Polish and somehow even shittier.The games are great exactly because they are unfaithful to the source material.
>>25338860>ASOIAF but for people with triple-digit IQ instead of mentally 12 y.o. manchildren.Ftfy.
>>25336912Been a while since I've read the, the details are hazy, but I remember really liking the style of storytelling where he jumps between times and perspectives. Can't remember which book it was, but I think one of them ended on a bit of a cliffhanger about what happened to Ciri and friends in that one village and then the next opens with several jumps in perspective from various people who were there or heard about it, slowly painting a picture of the events in question
