I would have enjoyed this more if ‘The Return’ ending hadn’t already convinced me that the Twin Peaks ‘dream-like’ universe wasn’t incredibly arbitrary. Still, it wraps up the most enjoyable cultural experience of my life thus far. ( )

As wonderfully disturbing as the recent series reboot. ( )

Unlike The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this book will only be of interest to those who have seen the entire show. For that reason, it suffers. It fills in a couple lines that could have been connected without this new “dossier” by Frost, because the show implies those dots. It seems unlikely we’ll ever get anything new about Twin Peaks, and in that light, this book is a decent final chapter.

Of course, that’s what people thought twenty-five years ago. ( )

Twin Peaks - The Final Dossier (2017) by Mark Frost. Finally, an end to Twin Peaks. This has been a long saga of a very small and strange place. The wilds of Washington state may have more secrets lingering in the outback at this time, but we no longer have to think about them.
This is a book, the final book, for the most ardent fans of this odd favorite television show. Mark Frost and David Lynch’s acid dream of murder and cover-up, log ladies and family secrets has taken us through an entire series, a movie, and now several books. But here is the ending of it all, I suppose, but in true Lynch/Frost fashion, there are no true answers to our questions. “Who killed Laura Palmer?” was the call sign for mystery, but by this end, we find that the call sign was a false flag. In The Final Dossier we discover that Laura, like so many people in the show and the books, has merely disappeared. There was no murder. Leland Palmer didn’t kill her.
Or maybe that is all wrong.
Either way the 18 dossiers within this book review some of the people we’ve met, some locations we have visited, some other strange events that occurred in the past, some disapperations of key characters including Agent Cooper, a tie in to project Trinity and Roswell, and lots of other thing.
This book is essentially a guide to what has happened between the end of the second original season and the third season, set 25 years after the original shows. A lot has happened. More mysteries abound. More puzzles to leave you exasperated due to lack of answers.
Oh well, this is Frost and Lynch and Twin peaks after all. If you wanted simple solutions you’d stick to NYPD Blue.
If you are looking for answers, read this book. If you want “Final” answers, good luck, Mac! ( )

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tragic lack of my hero
Dougie "Jackpots" Jones. ( )