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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
if you enjoy this you may enjoy: real history
I didn't know I'd need to be able to tell fact from fiction on US history spanning from the Lewis and Clark expedition to Ronald Reagan's resignation, so I had some trouble paying attention the whole way through, but I suppose I should have expected history in a book with History in the title!
almost all of the audiobook narrators did an excellent job, so it was a pleasant listen
almost all of the audiobook narrators did an excellent job, so it was a pleasant listen
This is definitely recommended to be read with the show, which I have not yet seen
It has to be said I love twin peaks. I’m a huge fan so of course I’m reading all the books that go along with it.
This is pretty fun, especially when you realise your reading about characters or relations to characters of the first two series.
My problem was, a great deal of the book seemed to be about sightings of unknown flying objects. It’s not something I’m particularly interested in and the accounts are quite dry.
Also for this kind of book, I prefer to know everything is factual and the mix of the fact / fiction didn’t really hold my attention.
However as soon as we get to the next section, the families of twin peaks it gets great again. And I love the central concept of who is the archivist is brilliant. Seriously, who is the archivist???
Mini rant 1. I’m so sad the Double R Diner sells veal. I’ll tolerate your usual meat recipes but veal??? Oh Norma, I’d be boycotting your diner which makes me sad.
Mini Rant 2. I STILL don’t understand that business with Josie and the Packards. So this book tries to lay it all out and it’s still incomprehensible. Just.... bonkers.
The ending is great.
This is pretty fun, especially when you realise your reading about characters or relations to characters of the first two series.
My problem was, a great deal of the book seemed to be about sightings of unknown flying objects. It’s not something I’m particularly interested in and the accounts are quite dry.
Also for this kind of book, I prefer to know everything is factual and the mix of the fact / fiction didn’t really hold my attention.
However as soon as we get to the next section, the families of twin peaks it gets great again. And I love the central concept of who is the archivist is brilliant. Seriously, who is the archivist???
Mini rant 1. I’m so sad the Double R Diner sells veal. I’ll tolerate your usual meat recipes but veal??? Oh Norma, I’d be boycotting your diner which makes me sad.
Mini Rant 2. I STILL don’t understand that business with Josie and the Packards. So this book tries to lay it all out and it’s still incomprehensible. Just.... bonkers.
The ending is great.
Not a book for someone new to the world of Twin Peaks, but for anyone who enjoyed the show this may be essential reading. I say 'may be', because it provides more questions than it answers and it's not clear at this time how much of this these will play into the forthcoming third season, but it provides a good deal of back story to several familiar characters, especially some of the minor ones, and places the wider mystery in various historical events, mixing fact and fiction in an engaging manner. The only thing I found jarring about the book was the 'spot the archivist' approach to the margin notes. Apart from the fact that it was fairly clear by about a third of the way through the book, if not before, who had 'compiled' the dossier, the constant in-your-face hints and queries was quite distracting, as I don't believe someone reading the original documents would have made notes in that way. Those could have been left out without any detriment to the ongoing narrative.
Amazing, should be considered season 2.5 in my opinion. Fans of the series will be surprised at the rich history and hidden truths behind characters that they thought were minor.
A beautifully designed book that's an entertaining but rather hollow attempt to fuse all the dangling plot threads from the first two seasons of the TV show with almost every major 20th-century conspiracy theory.