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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Twin Peaks quickly became one of my favorite shows ever after binge watching it during quarantine. My feelings on this book are mixed but overall positive.
It's less Lynchian than the show, considering David Lynch himself isn't involved with this book (allegedly, he hasn't even read it). So much of Twin Peaks' strength is in it's mystery and esotericism, which makes the prospect of a book explaining those mysteries somewhat dangerous. However, for the most part, Frost walks the line of exploring the world without giving too much away fairly well. Especially if you treat the book as unreliable, as he seems to want us to do. Still, I could see some of the book's choices not sitting well with certain fans of the show.
There's a very heavy focus on UFOs and conspiracy theories, which actually incorporate some very interesting real history, from Lewis and Clark to the Freemasons to occult rocket scientists to Richard Nixon. It's very much sci-fi. There isn't as much mystery or horror or vaguely spiritual themes which define the show for me. Still, I found this approach interesting as a fairly conspiracy minded person myself, and it led me down some fun rabbit holes on wikipedia. The epistolary format of the book didn't bother me as much as I feared it might, since there's a few fairly consistent narrative voices and threads throughout and it's all very readable.
Unfortunately, one commonality it shares with the original run of the show is that there are a handful of detours which aren't entirely relevant to the main plot. Some of these are great (Dr. Jacoby). Others, not so much (the Packards, Ed/Norma/Nadine).
However, I would recommend this book to any interested Twin Peaks fan. If you haven't watched this show, this definitely isn't the best introduction, and it contains spoilers for the first two seasons and the prequel film "Fire Walk With Me."
I'd give it a three and a half if that were an option, but I'll round up.
It's less Lynchian than the show, considering David Lynch himself isn't involved with this book (allegedly, he hasn't even read it). So much of Twin Peaks' strength is in it's mystery and esotericism, which makes the prospect of a book explaining those mysteries somewhat dangerous. However, for the most part, Frost walks the line of exploring the world without giving too much away fairly well. Especially if you treat the book as unreliable, as he seems to want us to do. Still, I could see some of the book's choices not sitting well with certain fans of the show.
There's a very heavy focus on UFOs and conspiracy theories, which actually incorporate some very interesting real history, from Lewis and Clark to the Freemasons to occult rocket scientists to Richard Nixon. It's very much sci-fi. There isn't as much mystery or horror or vaguely spiritual themes which define the show for me. Still, I found this approach interesting as a fairly conspiracy minded person myself, and it led me down some fun rabbit holes on wikipedia. The epistolary format of the book didn't bother me as much as I feared it might, since there's a few fairly consistent narrative voices and threads throughout and it's all very readable.
Unfortunately, one commonality it shares with the original run of the show is that there are a handful of detours which aren't entirely relevant to the main plot. Some of these are great (Dr. Jacoby). Others, not so much (the Packards, Ed/Norma/Nadine).
However, I would recommend this book to any interested Twin Peaks fan. If you haven't watched this show, this definitely isn't the best introduction, and it contains spoilers for the first two seasons and the prequel film "Fire Walk With Me."
I'd give it a three and a half if that were an option, but I'll round up.
adventurous
challenging
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Honestly liked how woven in to outside conspiracy theories and mysticism this book becomes.
adventurous
dark
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
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Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
informative
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Diverse cast of characters:
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adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A