Fiction Books Thread
I recently picked up the (commercial; I understand there are fan translations in the wild) English translations of the Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski as airplane reading, partly because I found the games interesting but poor at explaining background but mostly because I'd woken up at 5 AM to catch my flight and didn't have the bandwidth to keep slogging through the dense mock-Elizabethan prose of The Worm Ouroboros.
The series is subversive fantasy with a heavy dose of folktale influence, somewhere between Gregory Macguire's books and A Song of Ice and ...
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