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dornwolf t1_j1m5ud8 wrote

Reply to comment by gnatsaredancing in The Witcher by Andrez Sapkowski is an underrated masterpiece. by [deleted]

To be fair at the time despite being well know in his home country, the the witcher wasn’t well known. It took to at least the second games release to even start getting English translations which just up and stopped at one point. Finally took till the third game to actually find that mainstream success. That’s when the books all got translated before it’s release, Netflix took interest in it again probably due to 3s popularity more than anything. Most people I think get them mixed up and think the games came first.

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nevereatpears t1_j1p8xhm wrote

Yeah the copies I read were ones that had actually been translated on Reddit. Apparently for years that's the only way fans could read the series, via the subreddit's own translations.

I've looked at the official translation and the fan translation side by side and they are near identical in fact. I'd even say that the fan one is better as the writing is less formal and stilted and more fluid and colloquial.

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