Topic by CritterPup 2017-04-05 04:55:37

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Hey there,
So, I'm looking for the proper order of The Witcher books, the originals by Andrzej Sapkowski. I tried to find it on Goodreads, I usually do that when looking for reading orders, but I couldn't find the correct page. Also, I was looking for the order of The Dwarves series by Markus Heitz, and I found a page for that on goodreads, but every title after Book One is in German so I was unable to figure that out. Thanks for the help.

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Reply by Guitarman 2017-04-05 06:32:07

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Hello.
Well if I knew these I would tell you. I usually look up reading order on goodreads too. But you should also try wikipedia they usually have reading order of things down pretty well.
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Reply by SilverMoon 2017-04-05 08:21:19

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You can also google it, and there's usually a list somewhere that tells you.

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Reply by CritterPup 2017-04-05 13:09:25

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Goggling is the first thing I did. And of course, it showed me goodreads then a convoluted mess of other websites that were dead-ends and always end up being accessibility train wrecks.

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Reply by pitermach 2017-04-05 13:20:00

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Reading Witcher in English in the correct chronological Order isn't completely possible, as not every book has been translated. But anyway, you first need to read the shortstories, starting with "the last wish" which was actually released later but chronologically comes first. Then, you'd need to read the season of storms, but as far as I know it hasn't yet received an English translation. Then read the sword of destiny shortstories and you can finally start reading the Saga, in the order they were released.
This reddit post basically summarizes what I just said so you can reference it as well.
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Reply by Dark 2017-04-05 17:12:03

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I can't speak for the witcher series as I've not read them or looked into them, but if wikipedia doesn't have anything I usually go to the fantastic fiction site for reading order Find it here they also are rather handy for chross series collections and if you just want information on say an author's alias.

I confess I am a bit of a stickler for putting my book series in chronological order, I even tend to number the folders, eg, I have a Harry potter series folder and then 01 Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, 02 Harry potter and the chamber of secrets, right up to 08 Harry potter and the cursed child big_smile.

I'm afraid I don't have a lot of patience with goodreads, since other than the publisher's summaries, the site seems very clutter and the majority of reviews I've seen on there are either one sentence "you should read this book because it is a good book" or "I like this book because I am a feminist pagan lesbian magician and the book expresses my feminist pagan lesbian magician values" eg, reviews that talk more about the reviewer and how hip and trendy their own ideas are than about the book in question.

Btw, I  approve of feminists, pagans, lesbians and magicians for that matter, but the reviewer I mention really was a pratt.

I suspect there are some  reviews and intelligent people on goodreads, but I find wading through the drek a bit of a chore, one reason I to confign my review searching to either fantasybookreview.co.uk where hopefully the official site reviewers know what they are talking about (well accept for that lunatic called Dark of course), or a few people on tor.com such as Leigh butler or mari-ness who's opinions I find interesting to read.

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