User blog comment:Esmorax/Introduction/@comment-6697950-20130727221146/@comment-1173941-20130727222419

^This guy, could not be more right. If you'd like to read the Light Novel, I suggest checking out Baka-Tsuki's Project page for Sword Art Online!

Otherwise, 90% of the content on here is spoilers... (also, some of the side-stories were butchers in the anime, so there's that...)