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Welcome to Night Vale
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Thérèse Plummer, Dan Bittner
- Series: Welcome to Night Vale, Book 1, Night Vale, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Horror
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Performed by Welcome to Night Vale podcast narrator Cecil Baldwin and special guests Dylan Marron, Retta, Thérèse Plummer, and Dan Bittner, with music by Disparition.
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 ourselves...no matter where we live.
"Hypnotic and darkly funny.... Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in." (The Guardian)
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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 futures...if they can ever find it.
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"Hypnotic and darkly funny.... Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King, and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in." (The Guardian)
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- Christopher
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This is so good, but
Would you listen to Welcome to Night Vale again? Why?
Probably. There are a lot of details and fan service for lovers of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Welcome to Night Vale?
There is a confrontation toward the end, in fact the climactic confrontation that changes the reader's view of one of the main characters. (Sorry, no spoilers here.)
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I really wanted to give this title 5 stars. The performance is the usual fantastic quality that fans of the podcast have come to expect, though billing the additional narrators when they in fact have less than five minutes of mike time is rather a stretch.
The reason my rating only rises to four stars is that, if this were your first exposure to WNV, it would make a lot less sense than it should. Listeners to the podcast have had eighty-plus episodes to learn about the strangeness of Night Vale and its people. The book/audio production here had a daunting task of bringing NV virgins up to speed, and did not fully succeed in this task. For WNV podcast listeners, this book is fabulous, for people who don't know Night Vale from Desert Bluffs, I might advise you to go back and listen to at least the episodes of the podcast that occur before the book release first.
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Some Things Aren't Scalable
What was most disappointing about Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor ’s story?
I had heard a lot about Night Vale, and was really interested in diving into a different style of storytelling. This is a case where what may be great as vignettes just does not translate well to a book. I still want to listen to the shorts, but unless there is a massive repository of inside jokes that I am just not cueing in on, I am not sure why this received such a massively positive response.
Listening to this book was how I imagine I would feel if I wallpapered my house with Dali paintings. Surrealism is great, but more so in small doses as a contrast to reality. Welcome to Night Vale as a book spends most of its energy on reinforcing the idea of how quirky it is, like a trope of a college performance art piece. And like those pieces, I feel like the implied response to this complaint is that I just don't "get it".
I developed no empathy for the characters, and spent most of the book hoping more time would be spent on the news updates or strange happenings. Will still try out the shorts, but probably not anything that requires serious plot/character development from this author.
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- DrinkingDad
- 06-04-18
This book not for those with a want for sanity
Forced myself to listen to this entire book. The narration was solid. The story and concept felt like a nonstop nonsensical trip on government mandated hallucinogens for the purpose of torture.
Nothing was set in stone, nothing followed its own rules it imposed.
In short, the story felt like a nonstop argument with a four year old making up rules as they went.
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- Dixie Dome
- 05-21-18
What's the fuss?
If you like murky, non-sensical, plot-averse ramblings, then this is your book. It may work well as a print experience, but as an audio book, it was downright painful. I kept listening just to see if it would make sense in the end, and it barely did. But what a dreadful experience.
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- Hannah
- 05-22-16
Maybe a little too much of a good thing
First off, I love the WTNV podcast. I've been listening to it nearly since it started and have even gone to one of their live performances. I'm nearly done with the book, but I do have to say that I really don't like it as much as the podcast. I think part of the appeal of the shorter format is that you only get small snippets of strange things, but here, where we're given lengthy and detailed explanations of townspeople's day-to-day lives, it looses a bit of the magic. It's sort of like seeing the monster for too long or too much in a horror movie -- it ceases to be scary or interesting, it's just a costume or a puppet or a CG model.
That said, there are a lot of good individual moments and concepts, like the flamingos or the initial description of the pawn shop. Cecil's narration is fantastic as always and was the main reason I snapped up the audiobook to begin with.
Overall though, I just couldn't really get that invested in the characters or their problems (which tend to be surprisingly mundane for happening in Night Vale) and despite having a fascinating backdrop (assuming you listen to the podcast) it didn't feel like that much was done with a lot of the major set pieces besides, for example, brief trips to the Moonlight All-Night Diner and the Library.
I feel like maybe a collection of interconnected short stories or something like that might have fit the setting better, especially since that's basically how the podcast is set up.
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- SAMA
- 01-27-16
Really wanted to enjoy this
As a fan of the podcast, I truly wanted to enjoy this book. As it stands, this cannot stand up to the podcast. Maybe 30 minute segments are better to the narrator than a 10+ hour book.
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- Christina
- 10-21-15
Interesting, But Slow Going and Full of In-Jokes
I've enjoyed listening to Welcome to Night Vale (the podcast) up until recently, when it just stopped being about a cooky town and started being about them trying to tell us how weird the town is just so we don't forget. Not the point, though.
If it wasn't for the title of the book, I would have mistaken this for some high schooler's attempt to write a story for English class: full of in-jokes that only his buddies would understand and kind of bland either way.
The first few chapters are pretty slow going. Cecil Baldwin's monotone but relaxing voice is a welcome sign, but hearing him go on and on about one thing for a few sentences was exhausting and pretty aggravating, especially since it rarely had anything to do with the subject at hand. I found myself yelling at my radio (I was listening to it in the car), telling him to "GET ON WITH IT, CECIL!"
It doesn't talk too much about the characters at first, but more about the environment. Normally, not a bad sign, but when your book is based on a podcast that probably not everyone listens to, some of the jokes might go over a few heads. It felt like the authors were trying to emphasize the weirdness of the environment the two women were at than the two women themselves.
It just felt like the authors were trying to say "HEY THIS TOWN IS WEIRD! ISN'T IT WEIRD! THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TOWN! DID I TELL YOU IT'S WEIRD?!" instead of letting the reader come to that conclusion gradually. Night Vale's strangeness is not subtle which itself is not a bad thing when presented in the right way, but at times it can just be aggravating.
Overall, it's an okay book. It had it's moments, once the story actually started going, the characters were relatable (to an extent).
Would I recommend it? Ehh, if the other person had listened to the podcast, yes. If not, then no, no I wouldn't. In the end, it's pretty much up to you if you want to listen.
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This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
I'm sure there are some die hard Night Vale fans out there who will absolutely love this book. But as a sometimes Night Vale listener, for me the book was flat.
I really wanted to like this book. I didn't hate it, and there were parts of it I enjoyed, but I did not like it as much as I do the podcast and was disappointed overall.
The story overall was okay. I struggled because I really didn't like Diane. She was a nicely developed character, I just didn't like her, so I found myself groaning whenever the chapter was about her or Josh.
Has Welcome to Night Vale turned you off from other books in this genre?
I don't read a ton of Sci-Fi or horror but I don't think this book will keep me from doing so in the future.
Which scene was your favorite?
I was expecting it to be more about the radio station. The intermittent "Voice of Night Vale" sessions were nice, but I would have preferred more of that. Although the "Carlos is my boyfriend" gag is getting old.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Welcome to Night Vale?
I think I would have preferred a collection of short stories about the citizens of Night Vale rather than one large story about a few of them.
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I chose to listen to the audio book because it's narrated by Cecil and felt it would be most true to the original platform. Cecil does a good job. There is one spot where other characters join him, I thought that was weird considering it was a very small part of the whole book. I think it would have made more sense to just keep it Cecil for the whole narration.
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- Kurtis Karr
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Godot finally showed up. He was writing this book.
If you like Samuel Beckett, Monty Python sans humor and Salvador Dali on acid, you're in luck. This book will tickle your fancy. As for me, I could only stand about an hour of this schlock.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 03-10-17
IMAGINE A 15 YEAR OLD BOY. NOPE THAT WAS NOT RIGHT
LAUGHINGLY HE SAID THAT'S NOT FUNNY. AND THAN HE DIED. WHEN HE COME BACK TO LIFE, HE SAID THAT'S FUNNY.
THIS HOUSE HAS THOUGHTS. THIS HOUSE IS NORMAL BECAUSE OF IT'S SHAPE. THIS HOUSE IS NOT NORMAL, BECAUSE OF IT'S SHAPE.
I made it 47 minutes through this book. Whoever decided this book should be a top 50 horror needs to go back to washing cars. I bet this book set a record for people asking for their money back. I will join that massive group.
The narrator was not bad, but the mere fact that he read this, makes me hate him.
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