Pairing this narrator with a narrative that is so gorgeously sensual is a master stroke. I believe he could read recipes from a cookbook and make them sound intensely interesting. I'm not sure how, but they managed to find the perfect narrator for this one. The language is a delight to the senses and a clever joy to the mind. The author does a great, one might even say beautifully lush job, of describing the world and sensations the characters experience in it. The first thing I will mention is the writing. I'm going to have to give this review in three parts because, whatever else this book is, it is full of extremes. So, recommended! Just focus on the space whales and you should be fine! All of this can make the audiobook hard to follow at times, but the narrator is really good, with a fittingly theatrical, smooth voice and, when he switches up tone to suit a genre, there's an entirely new level of humor that I don't think you'd get from reading the book. All of this makes sense of course, since they're all movie folks and a woman has disappeared without a trace. It constantly and consciously shifts in tone, from a noir detective story to gothic horror and more, as characters argue over what, exactly, the story is. The book was weirder than I'd expected, theatrical in tone and post modern in theme, the story is told through transcripts and radio announcements, interviews and gossip columns. I bought this audiobook because I'd listened to an interview with the author in which she mentioned that this book had space whales and, well, I'm not about to pass that up.
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