Reading witcher in english is fascinating. Even though its translated directly from Polish, English sometimes flattens the raw, gritty Slavic wit, but the dark atmosphere still punches through. I love how this book tears down pretty fairy tales. It shows a magical world ruined by ugly human realities such as injustice, racism, and violence. It proves that no matter the universe, human nature always brings the same disgusting problems. Since I’ve played all the games, I didn't have to build this world from scratch. I felt like I was returning home, totally immersed from page one. Plus, every character is so distinct you instantly adopt them. Dandelion, especially, is brilliant, his dramatic bard energy perfectly balances the grim reality. The core of the book for me is Geralt. He acts like a heartless mutant who only kills for coin, forcing himself to believe he has no feelings because society expects him to be cold. But underneath, he is incredibly soft hearted. I related to him deeply. People often call me emotionless too. But I know how much I actually care. When it matters, sometimes I act way more thoughtful and genuinely considerate than the people who constantly brag about how sensitive they are. Like Geralt, being guarded doesn't mean you don't feel. Some dislike that this is just a collection of scattered short stories, but I think it’s the perfect, low pressure gateway into the universe. It’s a fun, easy read that makes you feel both the darkness of the world and the hidden warmth of its hero.
First of all, it was an easy and comfortable book to read, and it had everything you would expect from a romance novel. The characters constantly running into each other, the male main character always being the one who saves the woman, those moments where the female character is like “I don’t depend on a man, look, I’m strong too,” and the fact that they immediately fell for each other from the very first moment they saw each other — it had all of those things. The girl loving luxury but also having those “I’m not like that” moments was there too. Even the way they acted like teenagers experiencing love for the first time was included.
I was expecting something more interesting, especially since the main character was supposedly bisexual, but she basically fell for the first handsome and rich man she saw. I didn’t like any of the characters. Honestly, it was obvious how the ending would go. They were either going to get married or he was going to propose, and that unnecessary breakup scene the author added just to create some drama was so pointless.
It was nice to read something that reflected Armenian culture, and the book has an English level that flows easily and doesn’t make the reader struggle too much. But aside from that, I feel like something was missing. It could have been much better.
It’s readable, but I don’t think it’s a book that should be taken too seriously. In my opinion, it was just a very light, “snackable” read.
İlk olarak okunması rahat bir kitaptı ve bir romantik kitapta bulunacak her şey vardı. Karakterlerin her daim denk gelmesi, çoğu zaman ana erkek karakterin hep kadını kurtarması ve arada benim kadın karakterim bir erkeğe bağlı değil, bakın o da çok güçlü denilen anları ve birbirlerini gördükleri ilk andan itibaren hemen birbirlerine
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Currently being the only reader and the first reviewer of this book is thrilling! Alright, let's start.
So, this book is literally a conspiracy theory itself.
Silas Orven is a man, a supposed time-traveller, who appeared in a private Facebook group in about 2024-2025 if I remember correctly. In that group he claimed that he came from the future to try and edit the timeline because humanity in his era of the future is having massive problems. If you can "edit" the timeline, it creates a new variable. Our current actions, if they are different, can create a new result and new future timeline. At first, people mocked him, trolled him, dismissed him completely. But when he began accurately predicting specific events, people were stunned and began taking him far more seriously. Some even started idolizing him and treating him like some kind of divine figure, even though he repeatedly said he wasn’t a prophet or anything divine and that no one should worship him. The guy became a sensation, basically.
So in 2025 he published this book and then completely disappeared. No one knows where he is. No one can identify him. His name doesn’t even show up in any global database. Some of his most devoted followers genuinely believe he went back to the future, where he came from.
I read the book, and it’s incredibly well-written. Some parts are genuinely disturbing; his descriptions of the future and the era he comes from are pretty terrifying. It's pretty dystopian. It’s impressive how he explains how time travel supposedly works, and he even touches on several taboo topics like Hitler, aliens and their origins, why they abduct humans, as well as God, the Bible, the Qur’an, who built the pyramids and why, whether humans will achieve eternal life, what happens after death, and so
Orijinal metninde okuduğum eserlere yine aynı dilde inceleme yazdığım için buna da İngilizce devam edeceğim, kusura bakmayın :)
I really enjoyed reading this book. At first, I thought it might be difficult because it was written a long time ago, but the story became more interesting as I continued reading.
One of the things I liked most about the book was the adventure and action. The characters travel through dangerous forests, face many challenges, and have to make difficult decisions. This kept me interested and made me want to know what would happen next. But the most interesting thing was to think that all this cruelty and madness actually happened. It is blood-curling and saddening to think that the massacre scene at the battlefield or what that savage did to that baby by the rock really happened in real life.
I also liked how the friendship between the characters was shown throughout the story. The novel explores themes such as courage, loyalty, friendship, and survival. It gives readers a glimpse into a different period of history. It helped me imagine what life was like during the conflicts between different groups in North America. And I also wished I could have crazy natural survival skills, tracking skills and enhanced vision or hearing like the mohicans who dwell in the forests. Imagining living like them makes my sedentary city-dwelling life seem much more duller than normal.
Rezalet Bir Çeviri
Puan vermedi
Kitabın çevirisi aşırı özensiz, kötü ve hatta hatalı. Ayrıca metinde çok ciddi bir eksiltme de var; yaklaşık %30 - %40 arası bir kırpma söz konusu. Çevirmen berbat bir iş çıkarmış. Bunu herhangi bir yapay zekaya - hatta Google Çeviriye bile çevirtip okumaya kalksak daha iyi sonuç alırız.
Çeviriden birkaç örnek vermek istiyorum.
1-) Orijinal kitaptan bir cümle:
"The garden was overgrown, full of red-flowering oleanders and with Asiatic pines round a ruined fountain."
Türkçe çevirisi:
"Sütunlarla dolu bahçe ise oldukça bakımlı görünüyordu. Harap olmuş bir çeşmenin etrafı çeşitli çiçeklerle doluydu."
Burada "overgrown" derken = yani bahçedeki otlar büyümüş, yabani otlar sarmış, BAKIMSIZ kalmış diyor. Bunu "Bakımlı" olarak çevirmek için gerçekten kötü ve yanlış çevirmeye çaba harcamış olmak lazım.
2-) Orijinal dilde bir betimleme:
"...with moving wrinkles under them as though the whole lower part of his face were on a hinge."
Yani karakter konuşurken yüzünün alt kısmının / çenesinin, bir menteşeye bağlıymış gibi hareket ettiğini söylüyor. Bu zihinde kolayca canlanabilen çok güzel bir görsel betimleme.
Ama Türkçe çevirisi:
"Zeki gözlerinin altında kırışıklıklar görülüyordu."
3-) Kırpılmış paragraflardan bir örnek:
"The Street of Tombs lies outside the walls of Pompeii. It leads from the Herculaneum Gate, descending a shallow hill like a broad trough of paving-blocks between a footway on either side. Cypresses stand up over it, and make this street of the dead seem alive. Here are the burial-vaults of the patricians, the squat altars hardly yet blackened to ruin. When this man heard his own footsteps there, he felt merely that he had got into a neglected suburb. The hot, hard light shone on paving-stones worn to ruts by cartwheels; on grass sprouting in cracks, and
Love it!!
Its one of the best book i ever read!! It was a bit boring at first, but then it turned into a very enjoyable experience!! I would like to read it again..I wish I had known the author sooner because he is truly a great author.
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