What to read and play after watching The Witcher on Netflix

[war_machine_rox]

What to read and play after watching The Witcher on Netflix https://t.co/5LDiL39bbp pic.twitter.com/XebzdlZ5WG
- The Verge (@verge) December 21, 2019

If you're dumb like me and didn't understand a lot of what was happening, here's a handy guide to the best books and games to help you out.

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What'd you think of the season?

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[helyanwe89]

I have only read the first two books.

I am on episode 3 now. I feel like it is not going in the same order as the books. Cirri did not appear until book 2 for example. So I am kind of confused by some stuff.

[fauxkaren]

Yeah they're in a weird position because the order of the short stories isn't chronological so while people might expect them in a certain order, they are actually kind of free to put them where they want. And I think they're choosing the order of the stories they chose is more for thematic reasons. So it can be a bit confusing, but I get it.

[turtleisland]

I've been watching it, too, and I had never heard of it before, so I've read some Wiki pages and news articles. Apparently the three storylines are taking place at different times, and I guess ultimately will converge in the present. But they should do a better job of indicating that.

[helyanwe89]

I read The Last Wish & The Sword of Destiny which are the "short stories" of Geralt traveling around with Dandelion (Jaksier as he's called in the show, but in the English translation of the novels he's called Dandelion). But the short story time-line was a mess. In the first story that is broken up throughout the book he thinks about Yennefer but he doesn't actually meet her until "The Last Wish" - the last story in the first book - so I found that really confusing when reading it because it wasn't chronological.

[ebenetwo]

That timeline hopping confused EVERYONE they should get blasted for that sloppiness

And that clunky oddly modern dialogue

[selina_kyle]

Marilka said "Just saying" in EP 1 and I was like whyyyyyyyy 🙄

[ebenetwo]

What wtf lolol. Srsly idk what era they’re all from but talk more like Shakespeare* less like modern Americans

*you know what I mean!

[selina_kyle]

I do know what you mean.

GoT vernacular got all modern when D&D ran out of source material and had to write their own trash scripts instead of adapting from the novels.

I wonder why The Witcher showrunner decided to okay the modernization of the language in this series. It kind of throws me out of the fantasy of it.

[moliphino]

Though the English in Shakespeare's time was actually closer to modern American English than modern British English, funnily enough.

[vatulele]

Jaskier literally said “reverse psychology” I was like WHAT?!?!?! Do Freud, Jung and Frederickson live on the Continent?

[benihime99]

They're mixing novels and short stories which I find disturbing

[azaelers]

Edit: deleting my comment to be safe-some people were putting what I said under spoiler cuts.