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Bezig met laden... Welcome to Night Vale CD: A Novel (editie 2015)door Joseph Fink (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWelcome to Night Vale door Joseph Fink (Author)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Atmospherically good, and writing to the standard of the better-written episodes. The plot didn't really start until about halfway through, at the Library, and then it moved along at a good clip. The resolution fell flat, however---either I didn't get it, or the commentary about Troy as a type of parent was actually just trite and annoying. (Obviously I'm biased toward one of these things.) I preferred Dianne's meditations on parenthood in the first half of the book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Welcome to Night Vale (Novel 1) PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
Fiction.
Horror.
Science Fiction.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML: 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 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. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I enjoyed the novel, although not as viscerally as the Night Vale live show I went to last year. The juxtaposition of the mundane with the horrifying is Night Vale’s greatest strong point and this is much in evidence here. A particular highlight for me was Diane’s office job, a lovely satire. I became quite invested in the doings of the office tarantula. I also loved the descriptions of Jackie’s mother’s house, in which Jackie struggles to find cutlery: “Who has two hot milk drawers?” There are many brilliant little asides, though, such as,
If you enjoy the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, you will obviously enjoy this book. It complements the podcast without transcending it. If you have never heard of the Night Vale but enjoy surreal mundanity and vaguely existential musing, you will also appreciate it.
In addition, the pattern of flies on the end papers is very appealing. ( )