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Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel

2017 | Fiction & Poetry

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE ...a friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while its citizens pretend to sleep. It's a town like your town, with a city hall, a bowling alley, a diner, and a radio station reporting all the news that's allowed to be heard. It might be more like your town than you'd like to admit. In this ordinary town where ghosts, aliens and government conspiracies are parts of everyday life, the lives of two women, with two mysteries, are about to converge. From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an original mystery of appearances and disappearances about the ways we all struggle to find ourselves, no matter where we live.



Published by Little, Brown Book Group

Edition Unknown
ISBN 9780356504865
Language English
Edition Hardcover
ISBN 9780062351425
Language English
Edition Audiobook
ASIN 9780062351456
Language English

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Erika (17789 KP) rated

Feb 13, 2021 (Updated Feb 14, 2021)  
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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6.7 (7 Ratings)
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I can't believe I suffered through this. I didn't get it, I don't want to get it, and I'm going to take a hard pass on touching anything related to this Night Vale thing.
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GinaGee (448 KP) rated

Oct 28, 2019  
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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6.7 (7 Ratings)
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I read this book about 2 years ago and to this day my favourite character in any book I've ever read is the tarantula.
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Sam (74 KP) rated

Mar 27, 2019  
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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6.7 (7 Ratings)
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I had really mixed feelings for this. I was really excited to start it because of how much I enjoyed listening to the podcast, and I hoped it would be exactly the same as the podcast. And it was, which turned out to be my first problem with it. The format and themes of Welcome to Night Vale are perfect for a podcast, but not so much for a book. I just felt that it didn’t quite work right.

You have to keep an open mind when you’re reading this. Similarly to the podcast, you have to keep an open mind and you can’t take anything literally. To me, that wasn’t so much of a problem and I quite liked the metaphors throughout the book, but I know that for others it makes the storytelling more confusing than it needs to be.

I loved that it had all of the usual characters from the podcast in it. I was half worried with this that it would follow new people and that would have spoilt it for me. The fact that the podcast and the book flow together works nicely and really helped me get into the book.

I felt like the plot needed more though. I think this goes back to what I said about the format of a podcast being wrong for a book. In the Night Vale podcast, you have all of the different characters and forms of entertainment meaning that a major plot isn’t needed so desperately. However, the lack of action in the plot in the book really held it back.

I could see myself enjoying the audiobook of this, but I feel like that would defeat the point. I got it because I liked the idea of a change in format from the podcast, but I found myself wishing I’d gotten the audiobook because it would have flowed better.

I suppose if you usually read more in this sort of genre, you may like this a lot more than I did. I think the major jump in genre also didn’t aid my enjoyment of the book. I’ll let you make your mind up for yourself.
  
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Christine A. (965 KP) rated

Nov 14, 2018  
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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6.7 (7 Ratings)
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I read 27 out of 50 chapters and just didn't care about the story or its quirky characters. I usually enjoy similar book. I tried to read the ebook then listen to the audio book and, after finishing 57% of the book, have decided to move onto something I actually enjoy.