Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
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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 futures...if they can ever find it.
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Abgebrochen nach 65 Seiten Ich kenne einige der Podcast-Folgen, aber kam nie so richtig rein. Ich hörte jedoch nur Gutes und dachte, okay, geb ich der Sache durch das Buch eine 2. Chance. Aber auch hier kam ich nicht rein. Auch wenn ich schon irgendwie wissen möchte was es mit dem Mann im Mantel auf sich hat, habe ich nicht die Energie und Lust dafür Sätze zu lesen, die gefühlt auf Verrückt und Verschwörung tun. Jeder 2. Satz hatte irgendwas Seltsames an sich und irgendwann war ich nur noch genervt davon, weil es auch nichts zur Geschichte beitrug. Stattdessen ließ es einen verwirrt zurück. Ne, dieses Universum ist nichts für mich.
Okay so - where to start? Well, Welcome to Night Vale definitely is the weirdest book I've ever read in my entire life. I've never heard of the podcast to be honest so when I saw people posting photos of this book on Instagram I got all excited because I loved that cover. It absolutely reminded me of aliens and I do have a thing for aliens ever since Roswell. When I read the synopsis I realized that it wasn't about aliens but it sounded interesting anyway, really interesting to be honest. It sounded weird and fun and mysterious - everything I love in a book. So I picked it up immediately and started reading it as soon as it arrived on my doorstep. I'm going to be honest - it's actually not that good, right? I mean it took me over a month to finish it and it's not like it's a really thick book. It only has like 400 pages and still it took me so long to finish it. It was so freaking hard to get through it; to even get into it. I mean good lord that book is a total mess. It's weird and confusing and even though I've now finished the book I could not tell you what it is about. I mean it's about weird people and weird things that keep happening but everyone goes on like it's business as usual. It's just one weird thing happening after another without a real story. I didn't connect to any of the character which I found pretty sad. Reading this book was exhausting. But there were some things I enjoyed, the library thing for example, also I found Cecil's radio show pretty funny but that was basically it. Pretty much every character annoyed the hell out of me, I still don't understand what was up with Josh and Jacky and the Troy thing was the weirdest thing ever. It was so difficult to understand what the plot was and I have no idea what was important and what wasn't. It's like the authors are just saying whatever comes to their mind. I have no idea if I would have enjoyed the book more if I had listened to the podcast before. I really think that this kind of story works much better as a podcast. I've heard people say that the podcast is like the best thing ever and I kind of want to listen to it (even though I didn't enjoy the book that much) just to find out if it really is better than the book. I also believe that the show is also great; I mean that would make a great show to be honest and now that I've found out that they are coming to Germany I'm thinking about going. Well anyway, I'm not a fan of this book. If someone would ask me what this book is about I couldn't answer them because I have absolutely no idea. I'm really disappointed to be honest, the synopsis sounded so good but the book wasn't.
Es war ganz nett. Ein verrückte Idee folgt der nächsten und ein Paradox steht neben dem nächsten. Aber irgendwie fehlte mir ein bisschen die Spannung. Es ließt sich locker dahin, aber richtig gepackt hat mich das Buch nicht. Vielleicht werde ich es doch mal mit dem Podcast probieren, ob der mich mehr packt.
This is the book every friend of mine who knows me well enough (as far as I let them to, of course) expects me to write but I can never do with procrastination vein in me. This was strange but fun. What we have here is a bizarre town with weird conspiracies and mysteries that no one (or at least, not Josh, surely enough) will ever be able to solve. I particularly loved listening to the voice of Night Vale. He delivered the news I cared to hear and they were always interesting. The characters were written in such a way that you could see their hologram rotating around their own axis and evolving into the person s/he is, in front of you as the narrator describes them. As if choosing a body of a well thought out person in a virtual reality. Words that people are casually throwing into conversations keep you interested in the story and make you care about the characters in the book in my opinion. Also, at times, difficulties that characters went though were somewhat relatable and had a reflect on my actual memories. This made me realise that certain things were real, even though they seemed quite surreal back then. Overall, I enjoyed its atmosphere and language very much and insist you to check the audiobook if you decide to read it.
Description
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 futures...if they can ever find it.
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Abgebrochen nach 65 Seiten Ich kenne einige der Podcast-Folgen, aber kam nie so richtig rein. Ich hörte jedoch nur Gutes und dachte, okay, geb ich der Sache durch das Buch eine 2. Chance. Aber auch hier kam ich nicht rein. Auch wenn ich schon irgendwie wissen möchte was es mit dem Mann im Mantel auf sich hat, habe ich nicht die Energie und Lust dafür Sätze zu lesen, die gefühlt auf Verrückt und Verschwörung tun. Jeder 2. Satz hatte irgendwas Seltsames an sich und irgendwann war ich nur noch genervt davon, weil es auch nichts zur Geschichte beitrug. Stattdessen ließ es einen verwirrt zurück. Ne, dieses Universum ist nichts für mich.
Okay so - where to start? Well, Welcome to Night Vale definitely is the weirdest book I've ever read in my entire life. I've never heard of the podcast to be honest so when I saw people posting photos of this book on Instagram I got all excited because I loved that cover. It absolutely reminded me of aliens and I do have a thing for aliens ever since Roswell. When I read the synopsis I realized that it wasn't about aliens but it sounded interesting anyway, really interesting to be honest. It sounded weird and fun and mysterious - everything I love in a book. So I picked it up immediately and started reading it as soon as it arrived on my doorstep. I'm going to be honest - it's actually not that good, right? I mean it took me over a month to finish it and it's not like it's a really thick book. It only has like 400 pages and still it took me so long to finish it. It was so freaking hard to get through it; to even get into it. I mean good lord that book is a total mess. It's weird and confusing and even though I've now finished the book I could not tell you what it is about. I mean it's about weird people and weird things that keep happening but everyone goes on like it's business as usual. It's just one weird thing happening after another without a real story. I didn't connect to any of the character which I found pretty sad. Reading this book was exhausting. But there were some things I enjoyed, the library thing for example, also I found Cecil's radio show pretty funny but that was basically it. Pretty much every character annoyed the hell out of me, I still don't understand what was up with Josh and Jacky and the Troy thing was the weirdest thing ever. It was so difficult to understand what the plot was and I have no idea what was important and what wasn't. It's like the authors are just saying whatever comes to their mind. I have no idea if I would have enjoyed the book more if I had listened to the podcast before. I really think that this kind of story works much better as a podcast. I've heard people say that the podcast is like the best thing ever and I kind of want to listen to it (even though I didn't enjoy the book that much) just to find out if it really is better than the book. I also believe that the show is also great; I mean that would make a great show to be honest and now that I've found out that they are coming to Germany I'm thinking about going. Well anyway, I'm not a fan of this book. If someone would ask me what this book is about I couldn't answer them because I have absolutely no idea. I'm really disappointed to be honest, the synopsis sounded so good but the book wasn't.
Es war ganz nett. Ein verrückte Idee folgt der nächsten und ein Paradox steht neben dem nächsten. Aber irgendwie fehlte mir ein bisschen die Spannung. Es ließt sich locker dahin, aber richtig gepackt hat mich das Buch nicht. Vielleicht werde ich es doch mal mit dem Podcast probieren, ob der mich mehr packt.
This is the book every friend of mine who knows me well enough (as far as I let them to, of course) expects me to write but I can never do with procrastination vein in me. This was strange but fun. What we have here is a bizarre town with weird conspiracies and mysteries that no one (or at least, not Josh, surely enough) will ever be able to solve. I particularly loved listening to the voice of Night Vale. He delivered the news I cared to hear and they were always interesting. The characters were written in such a way that you could see their hologram rotating around their own axis and evolving into the person s/he is, in front of you as the narrator describes them. As if choosing a body of a well thought out person in a virtual reality. Words that people are casually throwing into conversations keep you interested in the story and make you care about the characters in the book in my opinion. Also, at times, difficulties that characters went though were somewhat relatable and had a reflect on my actual memories. This made me realise that certain things were real, even though they seemed quite surreal back then. Overall, I enjoyed its atmosphere and language very much and insist you to check the audiobook if you decide to read it.