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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
A crazy collection of history, conspiracies and Twin Peaks fan service.
The best part of the book is the presentation, with highly detailed faux real documents. So yeah you shouldn't go with the ebook version, but the hard cover. Great coffee table book because of that, even if the content isn't amazing.
The best part of the book is the presentation, with highly detailed faux real documents. So yeah you shouldn't go with the ebook version, but the hard cover. Great coffee table book because of that, even if the content isn't amazing.
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“Fear The Double.”
This book was absolutely brilliant, you can definitely see the effort here by Frost in compiling this; it's just put together so well and he's given us Twin Peaks fans something very special. (thanks again)
It gives insight into the mythology and conspiracies tied to Twin Peaks.
Written in the form of a dossier, the book is a collection of journal entries, testimonies, and case files all to be analyzed by Special Agent Tamara Preston - who has been assigned by Deputy Director Gordon Cole to discover the identity of the person who compiled the dossier, referred to as the Archivist.
This is essential reading for Peaks fans!
Now for some coffee and massive quantities of pie.
Interesting, but very inessential. It focuses on aspects of the show that I didn't expect and makes central just about the last character I would think of. I honestly found myself thinking a few times that this was an X-Files book, not Twin Peaks. The first and last chapters were my favorite. Even the last chapter, though, ignores a brief scene from the show that by that point in the book seems vital.
There are a few nuggets of information about some of the characters' fates since the original series but that is not the book's purpose. There are even less hints as to where the new episodes will lead. It is beautifully bound and printed, but story-wise, it's for completists only.
If you happen to have a pair of old red-blue 3D glasses, keep them handy. The strange printing choices offer up some fun easter eggs.
There are a few nuggets of information about some of the characters' fates since the original series but that is not the book's purpose. There are even less hints as to where the new episodes will lead. It is beautifully bound and printed, but story-wise, it's for completists only.
If you happen to have a pair of old red-blue 3D glasses, keep them handy. The strange printing choices offer up some fun easter eggs.
I REALLY wanted this to be more about Twin Peaks and the characters we know and love so much more than it was. The concept was very cool, and if you are intersted in secret histories and conspiracy theories, you will love this. I just had too much trouble staying interested in it- and ending up skipping a few parts.
Feels weird to have read two TV show tie-in books in less than a week, but Mark Frost clearly had a ton of fun putting this together. I think it lingers a little too long on some topics for its own good, but for the most part this is a fascinating companion to the show. Really curious to see what the Final Dossier book is going to be.
Great epistolary structure and some fun Peaks nostalgia meets wacko conspiracy spiritualist US history. Good fun for the fan.
challenging
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
You had better be a Twin Peaks super fan, or you won't enjoy this. If you haven't read "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer", I'd read that first.
First things, first: don’t read The Secret History of Twin Peaks if you haven’t watched Seasons One and Two, as spoilers abound.
This is not a simple tie-in book. Nor is it a primer for Season Three. It isn’t really a novel, either, although that’s probably the nearest you’ll get to an accurate description. It’ll have to do, anyway.
There are vignettes of various personalities from the series, fleshing-out those characters and, in some cases, giving us fresh insights, as in Doctor Jacoby’s moving account of the Log Lady’s early years. There is a complex conspiracy theory, which encompasses Roswell, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, Lemurians, Native American myth and Nixon, leading straight (well, not ‘straight’) to Twin Peaks. And, of course, there are a trips out to Ghostwood Forest, Glastonbury Grove and Owl Cave.
I found it a joy to read, largely because the mystery remains. The Secret History of Twin Peaks doesn’t ‘explain away’ the supernatural phenomena that made Twin Peaks such a compelling television show. Although parallels and associations are drawn between the denizens of the Black Lodge and ‘aliens’ it’s far more complicated than that and many veils are left between speculation and revelation.
Season Three can’t come too soon but The Secret History of Twin Peaks offers something warm, familiar and intriguing to dip into in the meantime.
This is not a simple tie-in book. Nor is it a primer for Season Three. It isn’t really a novel, either, although that’s probably the nearest you’ll get to an accurate description. It’ll have to do, anyway.
There are vignettes of various personalities from the series, fleshing-out those characters and, in some cases, giving us fresh insights, as in Doctor Jacoby’s moving account of the Log Lady’s early years. There is a complex conspiracy theory, which encompasses Roswell, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, Lemurians, Native American myth and Nixon, leading straight (well, not ‘straight’) to Twin Peaks. And, of course, there are a trips out to Ghostwood Forest, Glastonbury Grove and Owl Cave.
I found it a joy to read, largely because the mystery remains. The Secret History of Twin Peaks doesn’t ‘explain away’ the supernatural phenomena that made Twin Peaks such a compelling television show. Although parallels and associations are drawn between the denizens of the Black Lodge and ‘aliens’ it’s far more complicated than that and many veils are left between speculation and revelation.
Season Three can’t come too soon but The Secret History of Twin Peaks offers something warm, familiar and intriguing to dip into in the meantime.