And Im happy to apologise wholeheartedly because obtuse has a meaning I didnt intend. Im sorry, didnt mean to say you were dumb or stupid. Obtuse is obviously not the word that I was looking for.
I meant that I felt you’d taken the word in a very specific sense and then argued against it. I was merely trying to say that I felt your definition of the what I said about elitism was unnecessarily restrictive, that’s all.
Well, let’s say, first, that there are so many senses of “elitist” that I really don’t know what definition of it you have in mind; and second, that there are some of them that refer to things that I don’t think are objectionable or harmful, and I don’t know whether the one you have in mind would turn out to be something I do think is harmful.
In any case, though, your apology is accepted. Thanks.
Pedantic, maybe?
Yes possibly. However, I think best to leave it now
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I would have done that if I could see the flag button. Where is it and what does it look like? Or how do you talk to a moderator? I used the method I did only because I couldn’t see any other way to address my concern.
Click the … at the bottom of the post, then the flag icon.
Last Wish is preferable as a start, but I think Blood of Elves is sort of a start in itself, so even if you have not read it yet, I think the background you got from the 3 videogames and the show will fill those blanks.
There is another compilation of short stories called Sword of Destiny as well, although I think it is more focused on the relation between Geralt and Ciri, plus the dragon story that was included in the show. Last Wish gives more background about Geralt as a Witcher and the connection with Yennefer.
To complicate things more, I believe there is a novel called Season of Storms, set in between two of the Last Wish stories.
Myself, I don’t think Sapkowski cares that much about chronological order… Last Wish was the second publication in original Polish, after Sword of Destiny, but most translations put it first as it was first chronologically.
Okay, I see. Thanks.
Due to getting caught up on this thread after a couple weeks of being mostly off-line, I’m restarting Gardens of the Moon.
I bailed 50 pages into the second book on my first try, but I’m hoping a decade and a half of experience and professional development as a Language Arts instructor has now leveled me up enough to better appreciate the challenge of Malazan Mountain.
I’m finishing up Liars Poker by Michael Lewis (the author of Money Ball and The Big Short). Loved it!! Surprised how interesting mortgage bonds are.
(And it turns out Liars Poker is Liars Dice, but using the serial numbers of dollar notes instead of dice! Doesn’t work so well in the UK… we have too many coins)
If anything is unclear, feel free to ask me 
Hope you enjoy it!
Basically everything Michael Lewis writes is worth reading
I’m re-reading a book that I was a tiny bit obsessed with as a teenager. Not sure what genre it falls into exactly (or if it even matters) but The Planiverse ‘documents’ the discovery of a two-dimensional world by a university professor and his students. I love the imaginative leap required to understand how it might feel to live in 2D, as much as the physics and biology.
Anyway now my teenage son is hooked too, just like I was. There are moments when parenting feels like time travel or karma or something. As a side note, my daughter has been buying so many books online this past year. When I raise an eyebrow at all the parcels coming through our front door, her response is “You should be pleased I’m not buying drugs!”.
Can I borrow her excuse and use it for board game deliveries?
I finished the lies of Locke Lammora and moved onto the eye of the world, never read any of the wheel of time, this could take a while.
The first few books are great. Then youve got to push through some very slow sloggy books before getting to the good stuff again
Been reading R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt series for the past few months, and just finished The Two Swords last week. Taking a break to read Timothy Zahn’s newest Star Wars novel Thrawn Ascendency: Greater Good. I have always enjoyed Zahn’s works, and while I feel his first Thrawn entry to the new canon was a little weak, he has hit his stride in the later books. Enjoying it so far.
Yes, the first few books are really good. I must admit I left it on book number 10 or so Where they clear the male source between Rand and … Aviendha?? It has been a while, I could have the names mixed up
The final books that Sanderson completed are well worth reading. The pace picks up again and I enjoyed the ending quite a bit.
