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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
David Lynch has not read The Secret History, his collaborator Mark Frost’s take on what might have been left out of their masterpiece. You should avoid it, too. Yes, Frost is the left brain to Lynch’s right brain. Yes, he helped bring Twin Peaks into focus, but his obsessions are not what made Twin Peaks so special. Without Lynch, a beautiful mystery just devolves into X-Files fan fiction. Remember the UFO stuff that almost completely derailed Season Two? This book traces that abandoned plot thread all the way back to Roswell, with detours into Scientology and Jack Parsons’ Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That green Owl Cave Ring from the movie that was just starting to make sense? Richard Nixon wore it, and Frost traces its lineage all the way back to Lewis and Clark... Thing is, who cares? Our enjoyment of Twin Peaks is not enriched by these revelations, and might actually be impoverished. There are Reddit threads more illuminating than this book. Lynch was wise to avoid it.
Jos pidit Twin Peaksista, pidät luultavasti myös tästä teoksesta (en suosittele kuitenkaan lukemaan ennen katsomista).
Que coisa linda esse livro, tanto em conteúdo quanto esteticamente.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book went in a direction I was not expecting. I always got a fair folk vibe from BOB and Mike and the others rather than an ET vibe. But, alien abductions have replaced faerie abductions in the public. I was hoping for more of a focus on the town and its weirdness, but the 'information' fit the flow of the storytelling and the overall 'verse of Twin Peaks.
A tour de force of bookcrafting. It hits home runs in every dimension at once. Indispensable reading for David Lynch fans, secret history and conspiracy buffs, and most of all lovers of the book arts.
Practically inconsequential to one's broader understanding of the twin peaks world but GD if it wasn't a fascinating lil tome of its own
The Secret History of Twin Peaks takes the form of dossier compiled by “the archivist” (whose identity is eventually revealed) and analysed by Special Agent “T___ P___” (whose identity is both eventually revealed and immediately obvious to anyone who has seen the 2017 event series).
It’s a mixed bag of interesting and well-written portions combined with a very front loaded selection of crackpot conspiracy theories. It also has some very staunch inconsistencies within itself and the series that are hard to reconcile; a character within its pages dies in both 1969 and 1986, and the history of Ed, Norma and Nadine is entirely fabricated (and in some ways needlessly complicated).
A good enough read towards the end but towards the lower tier of ancillary Twin Peaks texts - a genre all to itself.
(Special note: the start date of this is mere guesswork, but it really did take a long time to get through this)
It’s a mixed bag of interesting and well-written portions combined with a very front loaded selection of crackpot conspiracy theories. It also has some very staunch inconsistencies within itself and the series that are hard to reconcile; a character within its pages dies in both 1969 and 1986, and the history of Ed, Norma and Nadine is entirely fabricated (and in some ways needlessly complicated).
A good enough read towards the end but towards the lower tier of ancillary Twin Peaks texts - a genre all to itself.
(Special note: the start date of this is mere guesswork, but it really did take a long time to get through this)