This is ...both a very good book and a very pointless book and I don't really know how to handle that. I mean obviously I love Night Vale but there just isn't really enough new content here to justify it being a whole book I think. There is an illustration with every episode but they honestly aren't that amazing most of the time, and there is also an introduction but they are really too short for my taste and ultimately not that interesting. Some of the things about the way the podcast started did surprise me, but I wanted much more commentary content - maybe even in the style of writing in the margins etc - than I actually got.

I guess you could say well it's neat that all the scripts are in one place and they all have the opening lines and the name of the weather song and the ending proverbs, but also all the scripts are available like that online for free already so it seems like kind of a bit of a money-grab to me. I guess maybe I can't fault them too much for that since they release their product for free in the first place so they have to make money somehow, but I wouldn't recommend reading this instead of listening to the podcast because Cecil has such an amazing voice and I think that is half of what makes the show for me anyway.

I'll probably take a skim through the other ones at some point but I would by no means actual purchase these books for myself. They would need much more cast and creator commentary and also probably some nice full color full page illustrations to get me on board with that.