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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Todos los cuentos son muy interesantes, historias cortas y bien narradas.
Espero irme leyendo un libro por mes para estar preparada para cuando inicie la serie
Espero irme leyendo un libro por mes para estar preparada para cuando inicie la serie
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I will admit I was very unsure when I started reading this. I knew nothing about this series as I have never watched the show or played the video games so I literally was going in knowing absolutely nothing at all. It took me a while to register this was a prequel for some reason haha. I was like the stories don't really link until i realised i am a dummy and that's how it is meant to be because prequel. Once I got over my dumbness I started to really enjoy this! Yennefer does have my heart and I have literally just met her
I confess: first played the game, then I watched the Netflix series. Then I read this. Let's call it doing my homework. But I don't regret a thing. These are intricate, vigorous stories that reach back to the earliest ideas of what a "hero" is: a ravaging, inhuman force at the borders of civilization whose violence cannot be reintegrated into society - think Herakles, Theseus, and so on. Here's [a:Roberto Calasso|62357|Roberto Calasso|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1250935578p2/62357.jpg]:
All that said, I found myself unconvinced at times by a certain facile quality discernable among the various composite parts of the world of the Witcher. This is somewhat unfair - these are trial pieces, short stories from which to grow. But there is a residual risk of returning to the deep well of the male hero and the gendered essentialism it inhabits. Again, I return to Calasso:
On the whole, though - effective, active, and very, very entertaining. I'll be reading more.
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.This is one of the essences of Sapkowski's Witcher - an individual bound to the lives of those he hunts. But of course it never ends particularly well, as Greek tragedy after tragedy recount for us, and Sapkowski picks up on that too. Expect sardonic dialogue and darkness permeating the world.
All that said, I found myself unconvinced at times by a certain facile quality discernable among the various composite parts of the world of the Witcher. This is somewhat unfair - these are trial pieces, short stories from which to grow. But there is a residual risk of returning to the deep well of the male hero and the gendered essentialism it inhabits. Again, I return to Calasso:
Apollo was the first slayer of monsters; then came Cadmus, Perseus, Bellerophon, Heracles, Jason, Theseus. Alongside this list of monster slayers we could place a list of traitors, of women: Hypermestra, Hypsipyle, Medea, Ariadne, Antiope, Helen, Antigone. These women don’t have a god as their forebear, but a priestess: Io, who betrayed her goddess, Hera [...] The slaying of monsters and woman’s betrayal are two ways in which negation can operate. The first clears a space, leaves an evocative vacuum where before there was a clutter, thick with heads and tentacles, a scaly arabesque. Woman’s betrayal does not alter the elements in space but rearranges them. The influence of certain pieces on the chessboard is inverted. White attacks white. Black attacks black. The effect is confusing, above all disturbing. For the first time roles have been reversed. And it is always a woman who reverses them. There’s an obstinacy about the hero that obliges him to keep on and on, following just the one path and no other. Hence his need to be complemented, his need of another form of negation. The woman with her betrayal completes the hero’s work: she brings it to its conclusion and winds up the story. This is done in agreement with the hero. It is part of the hero’s civilizing work to suppress himself, because the hero is monstrous. Immediately after the monsters, die the heroes.Now, apologies for the long quotation, but I find it fascinating how clearly the world of the Witcher appears to map across this reading of Greek myth. Something I'll keep thinking about as I read more of Sapkowski's world.
On the whole, though - effective, active, and very, very entertaining. I'll be reading more.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
funny
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Super enjoyable! But I'm absolutely biased. I started playing the Witcher 3 recently and became obsessed, then binge-watched the show, then dove into the books. Since the show covered many of the stories in this collection, it was exciting to see where they differed and what changes I liked. I believe the show also covers some of the short stories that are in the next short story anthology, so I'll most likely enjoy that too.
If there's one thing I can say that I do not enjoy, though, would be mentally changing "which" to "that" in just about every sentence because the word is almost always used incorrectly and in abundance! But I really enjoyed the stories, so I'm not going to tack any stars off. Plus, we're reading a translation!
If there's one thing I can say that I do not enjoy, though, would be mentally changing "which" to "that" in just about every sentence because the word is almost always used incorrectly and in abundance! But I really enjoyed the stories, so I'm not going to tack any stars off. Plus, we're reading a translation!
i remember it being good, but i forgot everything:((
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
As a Witcher 3 videogame fan, I needed to read this book.
I also watched the show. Netflix season 2 was a decent adaptation to the novel. However the inner monologues and expositions were taken out. The anthology style writing made the show feel disjointed.
The books after all, are better.
I do have thoughts about the Witcher's world. Its magic and monsters cause social injustices that even Geralt isn't immune from. He makes mistakes. Its a grimdark world full of evils, yet we still feel certain joy because Geralt tries to be a better man.
I suppose that itself is an answer to a terrible world. To try to do better without being stupidly chivalrous.
I also watched the show. Netflix season 2 was a decent adaptation to the novel. However the inner monologues and expositions were taken out. The anthology style writing made the show feel disjointed.
The books after all, are better.
I do have thoughts about the Witcher's world. Its magic and monsters cause social injustices that even Geralt isn't immune from. He makes mistakes. Its a grimdark world full of evils, yet we still feel certain joy because Geralt tries to be a better man.
I suppose that itself is an answer to a terrible world. To try to do better without being stupidly chivalrous.