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I got them all. As a much younger Nordicskillz, I thought Laura Palmer's diaries were really exciting and rude. I also thought they were written atrociously, even then.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 18 January 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

The Agent Cooper one made me laugh.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 18 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Got both those and the guide to town one, which I thought most entertaining.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I could never get hold of the guide to the town. I believe it has some references to the plot of the non-existent third series too.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 18 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

even when i was watching all the episodes for the first time a few months ago and was well into twin peaks,i still wasn't bothered reading more than the first fifty pages of the diary of laura palmer...
haven't read any of the others either...

― robin (robin), Saturday, 18 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I got all of these and the Agent Cooper tape. The guide to the town is the best. All of them introduce all kinds of contradictions and continuity problems which unsettled my 14-year-old brain.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 18 January 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Supposedly the diary had a good deal of not-ready-for-prime-time stuff cut before publication...

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The best thing about Laura Palmer's diary is that, despite the fact it was written by a not-old female (if I recall correctly - LYnch's daughter, which is alarming), it reads like it was written by a 50-year-old trucker pretending to be a teenage girl on an AOL chat room. It's fantastic.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah it was written by lynch's daughter,and the agent cooper book by mark frost's son...

― robin (robin), Monday, 20 January 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone read the book of critical essays on Twin Peaks called "Full of Secrets" ? It's kind of good.

― Mandee, Monday, 20 January 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

That book (Full of Secrets) was crucial in my engendering a deep suspicion of English departments even before I went off to college.

The Laura Palmer diaries were the raciest thing I had read to that point, and yes, they don't read like the terrified musings of a 17-year-old girl at all.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i was half thinking of tracking down that full of secrets book...
there is a monthly magazine as well,at this stage i'd say it's fairly bollocks but the early issues before they started running out of stories would possibly be quite good...

― robin (robin), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you talkin about SF's twin peaks?

I saw you know Coit Tower in SF...

Or is it the bad thing I'm thinking about...?

― The new Sean M. Hall (Piano Man), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you mean Wrapped in Plastic? I had a subscription to that back in the day (91-92) and at one point I stopped getting it. No big loss since there was never anything of interest in it anyhow.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:47 (twenty-three years ago)

sean writes:

Are you talkin about SF's twin peaks?
I saw you know Coit Tower in SF...

speaking of Twin Peaks (the neighborhood):

Blake Edwards' "Experiment In Terror" (1962, starring Lee Remmick and Glenn Ford and a AWESOME score by Henry Mancini) is concluding the SF: Noir City festival that's running currently at the Castro Theatre.

I think this film provided a type of inspiration to David Lynch's Twin Peaks series. Check it out it's on video.

― gygax!, Monday, 20 January 2003 07:24 (twenty-three years ago)

blimey! more obsessed Peaks-o-philes (I just made that up: is their a proper name à la Trekkers?) even than me. I have merely the 2 diaries. But I have also been to the locations in WA.

― Jeff W, Monday, 20 January 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

We'd rather be Peakies.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rapped and Spastic." I read the LP and Cooper diaries and found the Cooper more interesting, though yes, I was reading these at the age of about 19, probably, and I still found the Palmer one a bit racy.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember Cooper saying there was a poster of Jimmy Stewart in The F.B.I. Story on his teenage bedroom wall. Also didn't he lose his virginity to some crazy hippie chick at Haverford? All so very exciting.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(I haven't read these books in 11 years mind.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

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