Books like Welcome to Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town

A really fun fourth-wall breaking tourist guide to the TP universe, the Twin Peaks Guide takes you on a tour of the city’s sights and sounds as if you picked up the book at the airport and planned on making the journey to the little hamlet. Chock full of insights into the universe, the characters, the restaurants, sights, foliage, wildlife, history, and industry of the area, this guidebook presents everything that the show doesn’t cover and almost works as a bible to the universe if one were planning on writing some more episodes or a fan fic of the area. I picked this up again as I am prepping myself for the new season. I read The Secret Diary, The Autobiography of Dale Cooper (both of these for the third or fourth time at least), and The Secret History of Twin Peaks (for the first time) already, and I am planning on listening to my Dale Cooper tapes audiobook again…once I find my tape player here somewhere. What was really interesting was noticing the overlaps between The Secret History of Twin Peaks and this guidebook, actually – honestly a lot of what is contained in here, albeit in a manner which is hidden without context, is the same material that is explained in the Secret History book believe it or not. Once could read the Secret History and find much of the same stuff, but contextualized WAY more, but this has some clues scattered about in neat, hidden ways. It was cool reading this again after the new book. It is a lot of fun, and perhaps the real magic is in the fact that it is almost like reaching into the television screen to pull out the guidebook and use it as if you were a character stepping through that fourth wall of the screen and examining what is happening in town. My ONLY complaint about the book really is that the pictures of the actors are definitely Hollywood-produced headshots/press pack shots rather than something that looks a little more like it belongs in a book like this… The illustrations, however, were great, and I really like the minutiae like the phone book section and advertisements.