Andrzej Sapkowski
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| Original Title: | Ostatnie życzenie |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Witcher #0.5 |
| Characters: | Dandilion, Yennefer, Geralt of Rivia, Nenneke |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Ignotus for Mejor antología (2003), Tähtifantasia Award (2011) |
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Geralt of Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good... and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.A collection of short stories introducing Geralt of Rivia, to be followed by the first novel in the actual series, The Blood of Elves. Note that, while The Last Wish was published after The Sword of Destiny, the stories contained in The Last Wish take place first chronologically, and many of the individual stories were published before The Sword of Destiny.
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| Title | : | The Last Wish (The Witcher #0.5) |
| Author | : | Andrzej Sapkowski |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 360 pages |
| Published | : | December 14th 2008 by Orbit (first published January 31st 1993) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Short Stories |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 145448 Users | 10170 ReviewsCriticize About Books The Last Wish (The Witcher #0.5)
Fantasy isn't really my thing, but this was enjoyable enough. It's nice to read some non-English fantasy, especially since this didn't seem to be as influenced by the usual Tolkien style stories as most English written epic fantasy. A few of the stories were casually misogynistic, but there were also some really good ones in here as well. The second half is much, much better than the first.The Voice of Reason: 3/5Kind of an interstitial story, broken up into chapters between each other story. ASo Ive just seen theyre making a Netflix show out of this series. I cant believe Id never heard of it before, this sounds awesome!
I used to read pretty much nothing but High Fantasy, with a dash of Dickens here and there, and the occasional other classic, but High Fantasy was where I mostly lived. Deciding that there was more to reading than High Fantasy (which I absolutely and truly believe) I moved away and left it alone for a little while. Magician was really the first book I read that broke the High Fantasy drought, but it wasn't very good and I was disappointed. But it did make me hunger for some fantasy again...And
I may be coming at this from an entirely weird direction, at least for me, but I'm FINALLY setting my sights on the Witcher after sooooo many years of putting it off, and putting it off, and putting it off. Why the heck would I start now?*hangs head in shame* I watched the tv show. I loved the tv show. I had too many unanswered questions.I even have the three video games! I just haven't PLAYED them. *hangs head in shame again*So I had this idea that this first of two short story collections set
So, this is a collection of short stories loosely threaded around a stay by our point-of-view character, the eponymous witcher, at a temple while recuperating from his latest fight.The stories are mostly (all?) retellings of / inspired by well known fairy stories, like Beauty and the Beast. They share a slightly fairy tale vibe too. It's a world where destiny is a real force and unlikely promises about first born children etc made to strangers carry their own weight both magically and in popular
Think about a fantasy book. Think about your favorite fantasy book. Chances are, it included elves or maybe dwarves. It probably had knights or something like them. It was, most likely, heavily influenced by Tolkien, or his successors, and it was probably based, at least in part, on a certain Anglo-saxon, or maybe French, sort of medieval culture. And if you read fantasy, there's probably 15 or so more like it on your bookshelf or your e-reader of choice.So here's my recommendation: put down
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live. It is my personal belief that when it comes to myths nobody
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