The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)

Twin peaks is definitely in my top 5!! I have to take breaks when reading some of Laura's entries.

Sheryl Lee nailed it with a powerhouse performance that you can really feel. The story itself is a coming-of-age tale about a teenage girl named Laura, who has dissociative identity disorder, but with that quirky, dark aura for which Twin Peaks is well known. Laura suffers abuse by what seems to be an incubus named BOB. It's reminiscent of A Nightmare on Elm Street, if Freddy decided to ignore everyone else and just focus on Nancy with harassment, torture, and rape instead of simply killing her until she decided to avoid sleep with cocaine. It's excellent at exploring the tragic rationale of how people spiral out of control when they have yet to overcome protracted cruelty, with emphasis on timeless, universal themes such as self-loathing and self-improvement. She's a prophecy of her abuser, but still tries to do good deeds to redeem herself. Very powerful and depressing. It's a great meditation on the pain of insecurity, particularly poignant to people wrestling with issues related to sexuality. What's usually left out of the reviews is that Laura identifies as bisexual, and is taunted for it several times by her abuser, which is very painful as a gay person who grew up in the 1980s myself. Laura is an excellent writer, and we can tell from the elegant prose, alone, how smart and determined she is, and how she could have been someone great if it wasn't for her trauma. Unfortunately, this isn't the type of situation where you can tell an adult to stop blaming everything on childhood abuse. Much praise has been given to Jennifer Lynch for her words, and rightfully so (it's almost as if it was based on her own experience) but this review is also for the audio book and Sheryl Lee's performance. Sheryl Lee is known for her activism and philanthropy for many causes, but specifically for child abuse victims, and it shows in her performance. She's always brave, but especially here... really at the top of her game. The run-time is almost 7 hours, but it flies by like the rollercoaster that it is.

I don't usually find myself reading spinoff material from works in other mediums but having finally watched all of Twin Peaks earlier in the years, I decided that I wanted more and, finding this book on sale for cheap on the Kindle app, I decided to give it a shot. I found myself incredibly surprised by how engrossed I was, hanging on every word as the mystery surrounding BOB built. Now there are no answers in this book as it's only a companion piece to the TV series and film but I felt more connected with Laura Palmer as a character than I had felt with the show. Laura's struggles were deeply relatable to me specifically and I really couldn't put the book down, devouring it when I should've been working on other projects. This is a very personal review written with "I" statements, different than my usual style, because I recognize that this book is mostly just decent but was personally very meaningful to me. If you, too, think you might connect with Laura's child abuse and sexual abuse and you're the kind of person that finds healing in frank depictions of trauma in fiction, then this is the book for you. If, however, that sounds like a deplorable experience, I'd stay far away.

Disturbing, Beautiful, and Absolutely Not for the Faint of Heart 🖤📖 Reading The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is like pulling the curtains back in Twin Peaks and realizing the pretty little town is sitting on a sinkhole full of nightmares. You think you know Laura—homecoming queen, angelic smile, the kind of girl who sells raffle tickets at the school fair—but this book makes you realize she’s living twenty different lives, and most of them you do not want to trade places with. It’s written so convincingly in the voice of a teenage girl that you almost forget it’s fiction… until you remember, oh right, this “teenage girl” is being terrorized by supernatural evil while also juggling high school and some extremely questionable life choices. There are moments that are genuinely funny (Laura’s petty comments about people in town had me chuckling in a “yep, small-town gossip” way), moments that are heartbreaking, and moments that made me want to throw the book across the room and burn sage immediately. It doesn’t read like a tie-in cash grab—it feels like an essential part of the Twin Peaks puzzle. The handwriting style, the way the entries grow darker and more frantic—it’s chilling and brilliant. It’s also a must-read if you want to understand why Laura’s death hit Twin Peaks like a train, and why Agent Cooper keeps staring into the middle distance looking sad. Fair warning: this is dark. If you’re expecting cherry pie and coffee vibes, this is more like stale coffee and a slice of despair pie. But if you want to truly get under the skin of Twin Peaks, it’s perfect. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — Would read again, but probably with the lights on and a slice of actual cherry pie for comfort.

The book came well packaged and it is a great read. Not a long book, but fills in quite a bit that the show leaves nebulous. Season 3, the Return, touches on certain things that are brought up in this book, so while mandatory, it will definitely add to your enjoyment and understanding if you're a Twin Peaks-phile like I am. Highly recommend!

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