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- Came here to mention the same thing. It's one of the pillars of the whole Witcher saga, but most clearly it's visible in Sapkowski's short stories - The Lesser Evil, A Grain of Truth, A Question of Price, The Witcher, to name just a few.
- Complete Nonsense. The whole Witcher series is very well written (though I read only Czech translation, so I cannot speak of the English one) and Sapkowski is a good writer (which he later more than proved with The Hussite trilogy). The problem with the second season is that they completely butchered the story from the books. If Cavill wanted the series to be more faithful to the books, he failed.
- The Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski. I'm Polish so I've read the original. This was the best fiction book I've ever read. Also Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Neverwhere.
- The Witcher Saga by Sapkowski. For the first time in years I felt like I got really "lost" in a book again and it was fantastic. I could do that easily when I was kid/teenager, now it's much harder to achieve for me.
- From where I stand, Hispanic and Slavic literature is fairly unknown and underrated on the other side of the pond.
Ramón del Valle Inclán's "Lights of Bohemia": A great portrait of Madrid and the dirty guts of the Spain from 100 years ago, written in a gorgeously precise, dark and multifaceted range of vocabulary.
Ortega y Gasset's "Rebellion of the Masses". It is centered in the individual "I am me and my circumstances" and its evolution since the enlightenment.
Sapkowski's "Witcher". Look for a good translation, lots of Slavic mythology tidbits and wonderfully juicy curse words.
Stanislaw Lem's "The Star Diaries". Nice if you like to fantasize about buying pieces for your spaceship in a shopping centre or think about chair-like aliens with 11 different sexes (in the book).
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A hundred years of solitude". The book is all about "realismo fantástico", joining the real and imaginary words in an unforgettable blend.
- Try Sapkowski if you didn't read The Witcher yet.
