Welcome to Night Vale (Night Vale, #1)

Posted on 04 October 2017 by Joseph Fink

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselvesno matter where we live.Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.Nineteen year old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked King City by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can t seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton s son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter And lately Diane s started to see her son s father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.Diane s search to reconnect with her son and Jackie s search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words King City It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futuresif they can ever find it. Free Read [ Welcome to Night Vale (Night Vale, #1) ] by [ Joseph Fink ] – kino-fada.fr Here s the short version This book is a marvel and a wonder You should try it Here s the medium version Seriously Try it It might be a little outside your usual reading habits, but it s not thick of cumbersome at all It s delightfully clear and strange and unlike anything else I ve ever read And I ve read a lot I even liked it enough to give it a blurb As a fan of Welcome to Night Vale, Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink have delighted me with stories that are clever, twisted, beautiful, Here s the short version This book is a marvel and a wonder You should ...DNF page 187Weirdness, with a side of monotonyLet me start off by saying NO, I did not listen to the podcast first, and NO, I have no interest in them So please stop telling me I have to hear it to appreciate it Also, please stop talking to me about Serial too, the only one I care about is Cinnamon Toast Crunch While the strangeness of the town was charming at first, it became cloyingly distracting to have every other sentence punctuated with some supernatural weirdness In fact, stripp DNF page 187Weirdness, with a side of monotonyLet me start o...Dear God, thank you You too, Glow Cloud.I know, I know, a two star rating for THE Welcome to Night Vale novel.Oh the humanity.And before we begin, yes, I actually DO have the book This isn t just some attempt on my part to spit on dreams and fart on hopes for the fun of it.Ok, so, I ve been a fan of WtNV for awhile now, I like it, it makes my drive to and from workpleasant, I look foreword to new episodes and I was excited about the new book coming out Having now finished it however, may I just say Meh The first problem is t I know, I know, a two star rating for THE Welcome to Night Vale novel.Oh the humanity.And before we begin, yes, I actually DO have the book This isn t just some attempt on my part to spit on dreams and fart on hopes for the fun of it.Ok, so, I ve been a fan of WtNV for awhile now, I like it, it makes my drive to and from workpleasant, I look foreword to new episodes and I was excited about the new book coming out Having now finished it however, may I just say Meh The first problem is that it s written largely in Cecil s voice without Cecil being present What I mean by that is that there s pages and pages and PAGES of meandering, hesitant descriptions that back up and rewrite themselves, and while this makes sense listening ...All right, I m going to be honest.It s not actually that good It pains me to say it, you know I love the podcast oodles, I attended the live show, which was amazing I was very excited to get my hands on an ARC, and got to reading it right away.And let me tell you, it was hard fuckin work to get through It took me a while to figure out why that was, but I got it there s nobody for the reader to identify with The very premise of Night Vale is that weird things happen, but everyone goes on li All right, I m going to be honest.It s not actually that good It pains me to say it, you know I love the podcast oodles, I attended the live show, which was amazing I was very excited to get my hands on an ARC, and got to reading it right away.And let me tell you, it was hard fuckin work to get through It took me a while to figure out why that was, but I got it there s nobody for the re...Who am I kidding .Unless this turns out to be a manual on how to abuse puppies and small children, OF COURSE I m going to give it five stars More to come in October Update 10 20, 4 45 pmWhen my UPS heartthrob FINALLY arrives with my preordered copy, I m waiting at the end of the driveway He already thinks I m nuts, but I may have gone too far this time.And now, I m reading10 23 Done Okay, to be honest, I was hoping forof a travel tourist guide along the lines of Discovering Who am I kidding .Unless this turns out to be a manual on how to abuse puppies and small children, OF COURSE I m going to give it five stars More to come in October Update 10 20, 4 45 pmWhen my UPS heartthrob FINALLY arrives with my preordered copy, I m waiting at the end of the driveway He already thinks I m nuts, but I may have gone too far this time.And now, I m reading10 23 Done Okay, to be honest, I was hoping forof a travel tourist guide along the lines of Discovering Scarfolk BUTthe novel turned out to be just as quirky and involving as the podcast Cecil and Carlos are here, as well Old Woman Josie, the Angels, and John Peters you know, the farmer Familiar landmarks include Big Rico s Pizza and the lights over the ...I will be writing, have been writing, or have already written depending on when you see this Time is strange here on GR a review of Welcome to Night Vale But until when after I do or until you return from whatever time stream you are in to read this, or move ahead into another one I can offer one definite bit of advice Listen to a few of the Night Vale podcasts If they float your boat, or, lacking water, elevate you at least several inches off the ground for a period of about twenty minu I will be writing, have been writing, or have already written depending on when you see this Time is strange here on GR a review of Welcome to Night Vale But until when after I do or until you return from whatever time stream you are in to read this, or move ahead into another one I can offer one definite bit of advice Listen to a few of the Night Vale podcasts If they float your boat, or, lacking water, elevate you at least several inches off the ground for a period of about twenty minutes, you will love this book Proceed directly to the beginning of the actual review NOT ENCHANTED If you find the podcasts uninteresting, really, did you touch o...What the fuck just happened This book is a whole lot of things it is weird and completely perplexing it is hilarious and confusing it is cynical and brilliant But, most importantly, it is impossible to put down Nothing makes any sense So I had to reach ending, and fast, to discover what the fuck was actually going on But, this doesn t necessarily mean the novel was good It had moments of greatness, real greatness, though when you stand back and look at its entirety it s just a little bi What the fuck just happened This book is a whole lot of things it is weird and completely perplexing it is hilarious and confusing it is cynical and brilliant But, most importantly, it is impossible to put down Nothing makes any sense So I had to reach ending, and fast, to discover what the fuck was actually going on But, this doesn t necessarily mean the novel was good It had moments of greatness, real greatness, though when you stand back and look at its entirety it s just a little bit vague Everything is subverted to the point of death It s covered with layers of meaning that are, quite frankly, a little hard to grasp It left me with many questions I m not entirely sure what the novel was trying to portray At points the government are compare...Oh my god, I d been looking forward to this release all season you guys I thought FOR SURE this would be a slam dunk, NO WAY the Welcome to Night Vale novel would be anything but satisfactory A GRAND, FIRE WORKY finale to this season s Spooktacular slog.And then it was just kind of ok.So, the thing about Night Vale as a podcast I love it, obviously It s weird and fun and thoughtful and quirky and weird and sometimes creepy, but mostly it s weird That Night Vale style of nonsensical, nonsequ Oh my god, I d been looking forward to this release all season you guys I thought FOR SURE this would be a slam dunk, NO WAY the Welcome to Night Vale novel would be anything but satisfactory A GRAND, FIRE WORKY finale to this season s Spooktacular slog.And then it was just kind of ok.So, the thing about Night Vale as a podcast I love it, obviously It s weird and fun and thoughtful and quirky and weird and sometimes creepy, but mostly it s weird That Night Vale style of nonsensical, nonsequitur, in your face quirky random storytelling is charming w...screams for a thousand years

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04 October 2017

Joseph Fink