Absolutely great for Peaks fans--but still, buy the book.

This audio book brought great energy to the story. However, because Frost's brilliant tale is so uniquely structured visually--it doesn't translate well to a stand-alone audio book experience. The printed book itself is a masterfully designed experience--the story is told through a patchwork of newspaper clippings, postcards, government reports, autopsy reports, letters of correspondence, excerpts from novels, and all of this fabulously crafted miscellany is carefully annotated by an FBI agent. This scattering of documents was meant to be experienced and explored visually! The annotations NEED to be visual. I tried listening to the audio book by itself first--the nature of the compiled and annotated dossier did not translate smoothly to an audio book experience. It was easy to loose track of the larger narrative. Something was missing. But the performances of the readers, actors, and author are fabulous and should be heard. I ended up buying the printed copy and read along and studied the visuals in the dossier-format while listening to the audio--it was a phenomenal way to experience it and I highly recommend doing it that way. So for my five-star review I'm taking into account the overall cumulative experience of folding in the printed copy to experience alongside the audio book.

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Not Lynchian

This is all Mark Frost without Lynch, so it's space aliens, secret agents, fanfic-y backstories for obscure characters, and conspiracy theory stuff about freemasons and Alastair Crowley.

Some Twin Peaks fans live for this stuff, but it's not why I like the show. For me, Twin Peaks is at its best when it's surreal, uncanny and not answering any questions. So, my reaction to this book was a bored shrug, and I'm hoping that in the forthcoming TV series Lynch will restrain Frost's rationalist urges and wallow in the unconscious instead.

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Scandalous sound quality

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How can you make yourself release this audio book packed with the voices of so many great actors in such insanely poor sound quality? Obviously a 9 1/2 hour audio book in a file of 137,3 MB will offer a sound quality closer to the pre World War 2 and not modern age. To listen to these actors and their voices sounding like they're coming out of AM radio from the middle of the last century is a disgrace. You are doing Frost's book a gigantic disservice, and you are conning people into buying a hugely inferior product. It's a scandal.

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fun look into Twin Peaks

Spoilers ahead! I really enjoyed the book as a huge fan of the series. Frost's approach as a archivist's dossier with really interesting documents and pictures make this book shine. It feels believable. It follows the Jade ring from Native Americans to Lewis and Clark through to President Nixon and more. It was very heavy on alien conspiracies, more so than the series. There's a lot of changes that were made to the story of the TV show. Audrey goes to the bank to expose her father and his Save Ghostwood to stop Catherine with the hope of someday getting it back. She lives through the bank explosion. Big Ed and Nadine meet after Ed runs off to Vietnam rather than high school. Briggs is the archivist. There's a lot more I can't quite remember. Bobby was mentioned barely at all. Shelly and most of the kids went mentioned either. There's very little that has been added in the timeline from the last episode of the show until present day. I really liked the last half of the book. Despite it's weird changes I highly recommend any fan of the show read it. It definitely has me pumped for Season 3!

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Review from a huge fan

I am a huge huge huge fan of Twin Peaks. This book is the first new Twin Peaks content to come out since FWWM. Obviously, if you like Twin Peaks, you're already going to buy this. But I can give a little information on what Twin Peaks fans will get out of this.

First off, this feels more like an X-Files story with Twin Peaks characters thrown in. It's not really a good thing or a bad thing. A lot of the book goes into UFO stuff in Twin Peaks. So if you were a fan of the Major Briggs deep space spooky stuff, this is for you.

Now, what anyone really cares about: characters from the original show. If you want to learn more about some residents, that information is here too, but it the UFO stuff is really what the books about. Don't expect big answers like what happened to Cooper, but you will find out the fate of a few characters from the original show, which is for the most part satisfying.

I also find the audio book a bit disorienting due to how often the narrators voice changes, but I eventually got used to it and it didn't bother me once getting full involved in the story. The returning actors as narrators is pretty cool too. Hearing the Dale Cooper talk about the history of the RR is really cool, as well as Dr. Jacoby, Hawk, and Hank Jennings actors lending their voices makes this feel like legitimate Twin Peaks.

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Must for Twin Peaks fans

If you are or were a fan of the series, this story will fascinate you.

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So so good!

Such a finely crafted story, rich in details with many AH HA moments!
A long time fan of the show, I was happy that there were very few continuity errors between the show and this book.
A fabulous read, but even better as an audio book!

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Intense.

The best 9 hours you could ask for in an audio book from Mark Frost.

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Hmm!

I haven't gotten all the way through yet but if Mark Frost & Company were smart, they should have done this as a podcast. No one except old fans will ever buy this at this time. Maybe later when the new TV series is out. But I think you missed a way to meet your new audience & new media.

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Awesome book for fans

Couldn't put it down she I first got the book, finished it in one long round trip flight. Nabbed the audio book to consume it again.

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