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becthree 's review for:
Welcome to Night Vale
by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink
It's the titular podcast sensation in book form, and it's just as enjoyable as its source material. It's absurd, surreal, compelling, and above all, downright strange in the best way possible. Reading just how differently things work in Night Vale is an experience to be savored, and Fink & Cranor bring their pitch-perfect podcast writing into literary form with all the care and detail fans (and readers in general) expect to create a perfect compliment to the podcast and entry into the Night Vale canon. Highly recommend and ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLOW CLOUD.
A thought occurred to me as I was writing this review, however: If I had read this book without knowing anything about the podcast, would I have given it a higher rating? The book is very good, and I liked it very much, but when you have knowledge about the source material of a tie-in, for lack of a better word, it has an effect on your enjoyment of material derived from it. Maybe listening to it as an audiobook will tilt me one way or another since the source material comes from an audio medium.
A thought occurred to me as I was writing this review, however: If I had read this book without knowing anything about the podcast, would I have given it a higher rating? The book is very good, and I liked it very much, but when you have knowledge about the source material of a tie-in, for lack of a better word, it has an effect on your enjoyment of material derived from it. Maybe listening to it as an audiobook will tilt me one way or another since the source material comes from an audio medium.