Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-26094500-20150210013402

I am a recent fan of SAO and a even newer member of this Wikia. I saw you were top on the leaderboard so I read bits and pieces of your profile. I noticed it was your birthday two days ago! I just wanted to say happy birthday!

As long as I'm here, I have a question or two. I can no doubt find answers around here if I perused enough, but I'm not familiar enough with how all of this works, and the layout isn't extremely user-friendly, but I'm straining to figure out which books to read. Moreover, I don't even know how to find then novels I'm looking for. As of right now I've watched Season 1 and 2 online, and I've read SAO Aincrad Volume 1 as well as the first manga. Which, as a side note, happens to be the first manga I've ever read. Presently, Amazon is my source of SAO material.

There seems to be a plethura of material surrounding the SAO universe, and I'd be most happy to have some assistance traversing it. I'm confused as to the Light Novels versus the Progressive Novels. Should I be reading one over the other, or should I read them both? Is there a place where I can buy them in collections? These are some of my questions and ponderings.

I suppose, what I am asking of you is to be to me as Kirito was to Klein on that fatefully first day in Aincrad as he gave him some guidance in the slaying of the wild boar and other such basics.

Thank you,

Sam 