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The Secret History of Twin Peaks Hardcover – 25 October 2016

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From the co-creator of the landmark television series Twin Peaks comes a novel that deepens the mysteries of that iconic town in ways that not only enrich the original series but readies fans for the upcoming Showtime episodes.

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Publisher : Macmillan (25 October 2016)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 144729386X
ISBN-13 : 978-1447293866
Dimensions : 18.7 x 3.6 x 24.3 cm

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From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years.

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From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years.

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Mark Frost is an American novelist, screenwriter, director and film producer, best known as a writer for the television series Hill Street Blues and as the co-creator of the television series Twin Peaks.

The Secret History of Twin Peaks

The Secret History of Twin Peaks enlarges the world of the original series, placing the unexplained phenomena that unfolded there into a vastly layered, wide-ranging history, beginning with the journals of Lewis and Clark and ending with the shocking events that closed the finale. The perfect way to get in the mood for the upcoming Show-time series.

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Ryan Brett

A Must Read for any Twin Peaks Nerd

Reviewed in Australia on 27 July 2017

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I have just finished the Secret History of Twin Peaks during my lunch break and I want more! I devoured this book like BOB and his fellow anomalies from the black lodge would feast on garmonbozia. I wished I could stop to savour every mouthful, but I could not put it down until I read the last page. This experience put me right back in that misty town and reacquainted me with it's inhabitants, shedding light on some of their secrets and creating new ones in the process. This is a universe that has many more mysteries to discover and potentially solve. Twin Peaks MUST continue beyond the existing show and literature! I can only hope that Frost and Lynch take us further down this windy path of wierdness and wonder.

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Wonderful and strange

Reviewed in Australia on 12 November 2016

I didn’t quite know what to expect from this book, although having seen the brilliantly produced teaser/trailer online a couple of months ago, I have to say that it fully set the scene!

In this book, you as the reader, get to follow the investigation of FBI Agent TP (probably deliberate initials there) as she works her way through a discovered dossier of primary documents, annotated by a mysterious Archivist. Her mandate is to discover the identity of the Archivist and to determine why the dossier was compiled.

The documents range through Washington’s history from diary excerpts from Lewis and Clark, through to FBI classified documents relating to Roswell, UFOs and so on until the time the television series took place. I can’t say I know a lot about some of the real-life events discussed in the earlier parts of the book, but from the little I do know, an incredible amount of research has gone into integrating these real-life mysteries and conspiracies with the history of Twin Peaks. L. Ron Hubbard, Alistair Crowley, Richard Nixon and numerous other shady and renowned characters make an appearance. And the manner of doing this through the ploy of uncovered top-secret documents gives the whole thing a realistic, edge-of-your-seat and ominous undercurrent, just like the TV series. You’re not just reading a narrative, you’re alert and scanning for clues along with the agent. If you want any conclusions, you have to make them yourself!

You’ll figure out the identity of the mysterious Archivist quickly enough, but that doesn’t detract from enjoyment of the book. There is still so much mystery to be enjoyed as you shadow TP’s investigation of the dossier that tries to explain the origin and nature of the supernatural, dark forces that pervaded Twin Peaks. I’ve only just finished reading it and my mind is still a bit boggling. It raises more questions than it answers (a lot of cheeky clues – red herrings maybe – thrown in) and assuredly sets the tone for what the new series of Twin Peaks will have to offer.

It doesn’t go much beyond the events of the last episode (leaving a big cliff-hanger about what happened to the Archivist the day after we were last in Twin Peaks) although we do find out what happened to some characters in the immediate aftermath. Someone, for instance, survived the bomb blast at the bank. We also are given hints that some things were not as they seemed, for instance, the death of the Mayor’s brother may have been deliberate. Characters that were minor and seemed a bit thrown-in to fill in time in the series, here become significant players with complex back-stories that places them at the centre of events. And while it does re-cap much of what happened in the series and film, there were some interesting omissions – some major characters not even mentioned, at least one main character’s death not mentioned. Whether these omissions are significant or not will remain to be seen. And of course, to leave us on tenterhooks, we are not told what has happened to Agent Cooper since a day after his visit to the Black Lodge.

I had three problems with this book which prevented me from giving it 5 stars. Firstly, as documents in the dossier are presented as images, they were unreadable on my Kindle. I had to switch to my i-Pad in order to read this book and then it was fine although I had to squint at some of the earlier hand-written, cursive documents. If you are considering this book, I would recommend getting a hard copy.

Secondly, there are some anomalies in the history of characters that don’t match up with the TV show – how Ed & Nadine, and Hank and Norma, ended up getting married for instance; and in this book Norma’s mother dies before the events of the TV series. The reason for Audrey’s civil disobedience in the last episode of the TV series is different. Here, Hank knew the Reneau brothers much earlier. Perhaps there is a reason for this. After all, we only know what we know because certain characters told us in the series, and there’s always the possibility of the “unreliable narrator”. But otherwise, it just seems a bit sloppy.

Thirdly, there were a few errors in my kindle version. Paragraphs repeating themselves. In one case a whole page was duplicated.

If not for these things, I would have given five stars. This is a great read if you are a Twin Peaks fan -- even though it does go into the history of UFO sightings at times in a way more reminiscent of X-Files -- and a great teaser to the upcoming new series. The ending to this book occurs just a day after the events of the last episode of the last season. And like the last words of that episode, the last words of this book will leave you stunned, and desperate to know what happens next. I only hope the upcoming TV series can live up to the expectation!

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daniel legg

Interesting backstory, some clues for the next series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2017

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This book tells interwoven stories covering a period from the 19th Century to the end of TP Series 2, focusing mainly on Dougie Milford, with a fair bit on the Packards and some of the better known characters.

The book makes a strong connection between Twin Peaks and UFO conspiracy theories, which is touched in in the series (Briggs's disappearance and the strange brandings).

The book is presented as a dossier of factual documents, many of them military. This makes much of it very chronological, neutral and colourless - like spending a day reading conspiracy theories on Wikipedia. This is most true of the first third, which is a slog through 100 years of conspiracy lore, many of which I hadn't come across before. The next third gives some backstory on other characters, including Ed and Norma. The last third combines the Twin Peaks thread with the UFO stuff. I found the middle third hard to put down, the first third was hard to keep going.

There are few hints to the next series - the lumberjack by the lake? But I really hope it doesn't turn into the X-Files, with BOB and the other lodge residents as extra-terrestrials. I'm relying on a clue at the beginning, which says (from memory) that stories are things we tell to make sense of the inherent mystery of life. So hopefully the X-Files stuff is a rationalisation of a deeper mystery.

I read the book on Kindle. The dossier makes heavy use of footnotes, so it's unfortunate that this edition doesn't allow you to click on the number and call up the footnote in a separate box. I tried reading on the web reader and the footnotes were so small I couldn't read them. At least you can magnify the various documents in different sized text.

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Samedi

Essential reading for fans and non fans

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2021

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This beautifully designed hardback is a wonder to pore through! It’s a stunning thing indeed, and Frost’s writing immediately grabs you and takes you on a bewilderingly joyful journey.

Twin Peaks fans will be grinning gleefully as they step through this (only slightly) alternative take on American history, eventually peppered with not only characters they know and love, but the ancestors of those characters!

Beginning with the fabled Lewis and Clark exploration and ending up with Laura Palmer, this impressively researched volume also takes in Jack Parsons, Project Bluebook and the Manhattan Project, as well as many other things I won’t mention due to spoiling the thrill of reading it yourself! It’s written as a collected FBI dossier, so there is a lot to enjoy ‘around’ the text, including ‘reprints’ from the Twin Peaks gazette and a whole lot more.

Frequently, I reached for my phone to google a name or event, only to find the info to be 100% true! The Twin Peaks pre-story is fed through these real events subtly and sympathetically, achieving a really spellbinding effect. It really accumulates!

I loved reading this book and it’s a beautiful thing to have on the shelf now that I’ve finished it. I wholeheartedly recommend this without hesitation.

chelsea

Wrapped in plastic...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 August 2017

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If you've had this in your "to buy" list for a while then hesitate no more! Absolutely stunning hardback book and beautiful typewriter none glossy pages with character insert pieces from Gordon Cole. I love this and will be taking my time reading it. I'm looking forward to the final dossier in November....also it arrived wrapped in plastic.

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jamie seaton

Great book, poor condition and didn’t look brand new...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2020

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The item came a little damaged. Had some glue like substance on the front which I took time to try and remove and ended up damaging the cover. Plus I’m not sure if the item was actually brand new as stated due to it not being wrapped in plastic as it’s supposed to. Mine was wrapped in some bubble wrap and sticky tape. Overall I’m disappointed in how the item came...

As for the book itself I’m very happy. Looking like a great read

Ciaran

Great book, DO NOT buy the Kindle version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2019

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A brilliant, well written, and thorough retelling of American history through the lens of the Twin Peaks universe. I highly recommend for any fan of the show.

Please note that I initially bought the Kindle version and had to get a refund as it was completely unreadable as a large amount of the information is presented through newspaper clippings and handwritten letters etc which are not represented on the Kindle screen at all. The print version looks great and is clearly the intended medium

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