ETL Witcher Book Club

I found myself truly enjoying and appreciating the hosts’ commentary who brought their own sense of humor and empathy towards the author’s work. Love listening to these episodes with nuanced analysis and appreciation of the characters and events. The one side note to the hosts I would add is that I believe the author derived the names of the monsters from Romance and Slavic languages and mythology. For example, Striga sounds awfully like “Strega”, the Italian for “witch” and Bruxa sounds similar to “Bruja” in Spanish, also, Kikimora comes from Slavic mythology very commonly used in Russian mythology and the Russian language.

Was looking for Baptism of Fire chat and this hit the spot! I can thank these guys for diving deep and making me laugh.

Looks like I’m late to the party. I just finished the books and found this podcast. There is so much information to take in and this podcast covers all of it. Highly recommend for anyone not ready to leave the Witcher world!!!

This was an excellent recap companion to each Aitcher novel. The enthusiasm and comedic timing keeps the listener engaged through long episodes. I hated the mispronunciation of Geralt’s name, though. I yell “It’s GERALT!” At least 45 times per episode. They pronounce it “Gurrault.” 😒