Recommending The Witcher Books in 3 Minutes 

It's so good!!

Can u send me the books ?

​@ShivamShukla-vq4en Definitely.

@ShivamShukla-vq4envery

Good for you. To me they are pretty mid and boring.

can u tell me, what channel u listen to?

@@VenVoren I wasn't listening in English, it was the Ukrainian-language channel "DrakDub Studio", fairly well-chosen background music depending on the moment. In your case, you can use an ordinary audiobook with a playlist from RU-vid "The Witcher books reading music", listening to them at the same time .

Hi, thanks for watching and I'm happy you found the channel 😁👋 Glad you're enjoying the books! The Witcher is such a great franchise, and Geralt is one of my fav characters of all time. Also happy to hear you enjoy my content :)

@@CapturedInWords 😊

The soundtrack from The Witcher 3 is just too good! I sometimes listen to it as I write

Speaking as a fellow Slav, the stories resonated with me on an unexpectedly profound level. Like, I honestly turned my head a few times to see if it was actually my father ranting about the shittiness of the human race again, instead of a book I was reading.

Every time i come across a comment like this i become obsessed with the idea of learning the language just so i can experience this myself

@@ashkhri Don’t let your dreams be dreams

Haha it's so good!! I'm on Malazan now too and that will likely be a long journey lol 😄

@@CapturedInWords I am on book six. Somethimes is hard to follow, but it's rewarding journey in first place! You will enjoy, that's for sure! It will be mega fun for us when you try to recomend that in 3 min. 😁

Thanks! :D I like to make them, even if they've been underperforming lately

The hardcovers look amazing! I agree, Geralt is such a great book! Currently reading Sons of Darkness and will definitely make a video on it. Trials of Apollo is on my list to start soon :)

Really? I feel the opposite way but I absolutely love the short stories too

My job is done 🙌🎉

How do you find them ?

Ik heb ze in het Engels gelezen, die Nederlandse uitgaven zijn 25 euries per stuk ofzo (betaal je dus 200 voor de hele serie). Had zo'n boxed set met alle 8 boeken voor 20 euro gekocht, veel oud-Engelse termen maar het went snel. Als je het voor de limited edition doet en t geld ervoor over hebt moet je het uiteraard gewoon doen. Ik dacht ik zeg t je even, aangezien over het algemeen de Nederlander vrij zuinig is hahahah

@@Fartin_Gayrix nee ik weet hahaha, heb de Engelse ook gelezen van een vriend. Wil graag die speciale edities kopen, kosten 22€. Krijg binnenkort een mooie nieuwe boekenkast en die speciale edities van de boekerij gaan daar super mooi in staan. De eerste 4 zijn uit nu wachten op de volgende.

Happy you suggested he make this video, as it turned out great! I definitely feel nostalgic about the Witcher as well

Same for me, for me it's the focus on Cirri. I like her as a character, but she feels like the only reason the story happens. Get Cirri to safety, hide Cirri, Cirri is lost, find Cirri. The entire continent is at war this only affects the cast in their efforts, to find Cirri. Still gonna finish it, but I was wondering how you feel about the novel's.

The short stories are actually well written. The novels are miserable pieces of crap. Seriously, I felt the same way you did and was MASSIVELY let down by the end. Andrei clearly had zero clue how to write a saga like the witcher. The last book is what would happen if you wrote yourself into a corner and had to deliver the final book to the publisher within 2 weeks. Don't let these shills with affiliate links gaslight you into thinking the series is anything other than meandering shlock

@@marijnstapert9036I’ve finished the series a couple of weeks ago, and I’m hugely disappointed… I didn’t like Geralt’s arc, Ciri’s arc and the story in general. Now I have a love/hate relationship with The Witcher series: I love the first two books, Blood of the Elves is good, and I hate books 4 to 7… Maybe I will read Season of Storms one day (cause I’ve heard it is more like the short stories than the novels), but I need a very long pause from the series before that.

Witcher 3 and also RDR2 are both amazing! Two of my favorites as well. I'm VERY tempted to get the new hardcover editions for Witcher, they look so much better

@@CapturedInWords Oh they are gorgeous! But make sure you get the Orbit imprints and not the Gollanz ones, as the Orbit editions are nicer and have a quote on the naked cover and better sections of colour design etc 😊

Glad you told me this! Will definitely look for the Orbit imprints

@@CapturedInWords no worries 👌

Filthy casual!

Awesome, welcome aboard! Glad you're enjoying the recommendations, and hope you enjoy book 1!

@@CapturedInWordsfinished book one loved it purchased the rest of the books.

I never did watch the polish series, but I should definitely check it out soon!

​@@CapturedInWords polish tv series wasn't as bad as some people claim it to be and I think its worth a watch

Well, I've watched the Polish tv show and in my humble opinion it's even worse than the Neflix one -- equally bad script and direction, and a far smaller budget. I definitely do not recommend.

@@Your_President_Kanye_East At least it would rks better as representation of polish culture.

@@adamnesico I really disliked that show. I'd rather people learned about the Polish culture from other sources.

It's definitely worth revisiting! It has its problems here and there, but overall a really great series!

Awesome!

Will definitely do this soon!

The book that isn't released?

The games take place after the book series and will spoil a good portion of the books, including the ending to the book series (I believe this is spoiled in the Witcher 2). I would say the Witcher 3 has the most amount of spoilers. I actually played the games before reading the series and still enjoyed them a lot, but the books will help add more context and you'll avoid spoilers if you read them first

@@CapturedInWords ah perfect

Right!? It bothers me how that edition is smaller than the rest 😂

Dang that's too bad! For me, it took quite a while to fall in love with it, as even the starter zone is pretty massive and the story just hadn't picked up for me by that point. But then, once the gameplay and story finally clicked, it was a beautiful experience. I'm someone who likes to look for every hidden treasure and secret though, which is why I sometimes prefer more linear games as sometimes it can be daunting when there's a huge map with question marks and side quests everywhere.

Maybe I should try those :D i am studying Spanish

@@Fianna1775 i think you will find them hard. The original books, for give it a more past flavour used Renaissance polish slang. Fot simulate such efeect, the translator used barroque spanish. You won’t understand it. I tried the 5 warrior angels trilogy, but I don’t know if the author uses some medieval or archaic or gringo mid east dialect, but I don’t understand many of the words.

It's amazing how USA has so many bad translators in all forms of media. Be about books or even games. I swear I've read books written by Russian, Polish, Japanese and Chinese authors with better Italian and Portuguese translations than the English versions.

I’ve always found the process of translating fascinating. It is my belief that no matter what, there will always be something lacking or altered in a translated version of a piece of writing, particularly something as subjective as humor. I was trying to read 100 years of Solitude and just couldn’t handle it. I kept wondering if it was the translation. I did try to read the original after that but the dirt eating just wasn’t really my thing. I’ve read some strange Spanish translations too. In my Spanish edition of the hobbit they call Bilbo “Bilbo suitcases” or something instead of Baggins. And in A Man Called Ove they added this really long sentence to a description of Ove carrying an axe or some other tool. In the English they said he looked like a guerrilla fighter. In the Spanish they said he looked like a guerilla fighter in Africa who was about to storm the presidential palace. Quite a specific scenario there. One of the few times I have been annoyed with the English performances in Witcher 3 is when Ciri hugs Yen for the first time in the game. In the Polish version Yen was calling her daughter in a way that translated more to “my baby” or something. They take that out in the English version which is sad because I think it softened Yen a lot and showed how important that relationship was to Ciri.

SOOOOOO GOOD!

I did lol! I have these editions, and 2 of the books (both the short stories, I think) were smaller than the others. So frustrating and annoying, so last year I ended up buying the gorgeous hardback editions by Orbit 🙂

Ahaha yeaaa I hate that it doesn't match. I want to buy those new hardcover illustrated editions

No worries! I know it won't be for everyone :) Thanks for commenting Safina! 🎉

3 mins without the intro and outro ;)

I personally enjoy way more the short story books (The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny) over the main arc books. Andrzej Sapkowski should have written more short story collections or prequels, instead of complaining about the games.

@@AnonymousAnonposter My favorite part of the Witcher is the monster of the week thing in the Last Wish. But I really enjoyed the world building in Blood of Elves, and the stuff with Ciri.

I like the Baptism of Fire the most. It introduces so many new, very well written, interesting characters and a few deep dialogues about life and morality (like in the rest of the books but better in my opinion)

@@papej3290 I’ll have to get back to it at some point. I was just really let down by Time of Contempt.

Yeah went a bit over time haha!

Yeah I think the fourth one was definitely weaker than some of the others. I also had some issues with Blood of Elves, but overall enjoy the series. I agree though, there can definitely be some cringe moments

Then you gotta stop him or he'll become sexist too 😱

So close! 🎉