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The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks) Paperback – December 6, 2011

by Jennifer Lynch (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,507 ratings
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Back in print for the first time in years—and available in eBook for the first time—the New York Times bestselling tie-in to the hit television show and cult classic, Twin Peaks.

Laura Palmer was introduced to television audiences in the opening scenes of "Twin Peaks"—as a beautiful dead girl, wrapped in plastic.

Now available in print for the first time in many years (and in e-book for the very first time!), The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer chronicles Laura's life from age 12 to her death at 17, and is filled with secrets, character references, and even clues to the identity of her eventual killer.

Fans of the show will love seeing their favorite characters again, and Laura's diary makes compelling reading as she turns from a naive freshman having her first kiss to a "bad girl" experimenting with drugs, sex and the occult.

"As seen by" Jennifer Lynch, creator David Lynch's daughter, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is authentic, creepy, and a perfect book for anyone who loves supernatural suspense.
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    192 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    December 6, 2011
  4. Dimensions
    5.31 x 0.48 x 7.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1451662076
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1451662078
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Jennifer Lynch discovered the diary of Laura Palmer in 1989. While on the surface Laura led a perfect life as homecoming queen, successful high school student, and daddy’s girl, her diary, reveals a sordid double life of cocaine, prostitution, and abuse. FBI investigators hope that this diary will be a useful clue to discovering her killer.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; Reissue edition (December 6, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1451662076
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1451662078
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.48 x 7.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,507 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book well-written and interesting. They describe the story as captivating, engaging, and frightening. Readers say it provides good insight into Laura Palmer's character and troubled life. They also describe it as an excellent companion to the series and a great addition to the movie. However, some customers feel the content is dark, disturbing, and creepy.

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71 customers mention "Readability"63 positive8 negative

Customers find the book well-written, interesting, and fun. They also say it includes beautiful poetry and explores a tragic soul's struggle.

"...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..." Read more

"Wonderful novel entailing the life of homecoming queen Laura Palmer from 12 years old to the events in Fire Walk With Me...." Read more

"...It's a great item to have for your Twin Peaks collection and worth reading at least once. I can safely say once is enough for me...." Read more

"...the show, this novel stands by itself as a great story and includes beautiful poetry that laura Palmer added in her diary...." Read more

25 customers mention "Story quality"25 positive0 negative

Customers find the story captivating, engaging, and interesting. They say it adds a lot to the lore of Twin Peaks and raises new questions. Readers also mention the book is great for the imagination and provides plenty of background information.

"...Very powerful and depressing...." Read more

"This book was really enlightening on the life and final days of Laura Palmer, but it was pretty difficult to read...." Read more

"...who maybe didn't watch the show, this novel stands by itself as a great story and includes beautiful poetry that laura Palmer added in her diary...." Read more

"The book is an interesting read, and adds a lot to the lore of Twin Peaks. It's a must-buy for fans...." Read more

12 customers mention "Insight"12 positive0 negative

Customers find the book provides good insight into the person behind Laura Palmer. They say it deepens her character and explains quite a lot. Readers also mention it fills in gaps, raises new questions, and reels the mind. They say it provides a few deep-covered mysteries that only one's imagination can resolve.

"...Very powerful and depressing. It's a great meditation on the pain of insecurity, particularly poignant to people wrestling with issues related to..." Read more

"...is written as if it's actually Laura Palmer's diary and helps the reader gain more insight into the horrible events surrounding her death...." Read more

"...It also has more information on the questions I had about the series; and while much is still to be explained, I can definitely say this is a great..." Read more

"...I loved this book. It fills in gaps, raises new questions and reels the mind. I loved it...." Read more

11 customers mention "Companionship"11 positive0 negative

Customers find the book an excellent companion to the series. They say it's a great addition to two seasons and good as part of a collection. Readers also mention it's great for fans of the old show.

"A great companion to the show, the entries immediately prior to Palmer's death are particularly illuminating...." Read more

"...Definitely a great companion piece for the show, if only for lore expansion." Read more

"...Great addition to 2 seasons, and at the end of the movie we have an answer why BOB went into someone else..." Read more

"The perfect companion to the series. As much Laura Palmer as I can get the better...." Read more

6 customers mention "Insight into laura"6 positive0 negative

Customers find the book well-written and easy to identify with Laura as a teenager growing up in the 1990s.

"...But it's very well-written, and provides a greatly desired insight into Laura, one of my favorite television show characters of all time...." Read more

"This was a fun read. It gives insight into who Laura was and how her life played out...." Read more

"Easy to identify with Laura as a teenage growing up in 1990's Twin Peaks Good read. Sex questions and feelings were never discussed in many homes...." Read more

"This is a good coming to the show and gives little details about Laura and her life leading up to her murder." Read more

4 customers mention "Charm"4 positive0 negative

Customers find the book charming, surreal, and insightful.

"...would love this painful but beautiful look into the frightening, charming, and surreal world of Twin Peaks." Read more

"...Nice touch." Read more

"...This really filled in the gaps about who Laura Palmer was. It's sexy, thrilling and great for the imagination." Read more

"...I think any fan of Twin Peaks should read this brilliant and insightful work of art." Read more

3 customers mention "Fan base"3 positive0 negative

Customers say the book is essential for any Twin Peaks fan and a must-buy.

"...It's a must-buy for fans. It's written by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of series co-creator David Lynch...." Read more

"This is great for Twin Peaks fans...." Read more

"Great book. Simple read. Essential for any Twin Peaks fan, being that it is the glue between the series and Fire Walk With Me in terms of..." Read more

11 customers mention "Pacing"2 positive9 negative

Customers find the pacing of the book slow. They also say the content is dark, disturbing, and depressing. Readers mention the book makes them feel gross to read.

"...It was creepy to read some of the entries and imagine they were coming from the mind of a 12 year old child, the diary starts off very early in her..." Read more

"...It's extremely disturbing in some parts I would not recommend for anyone with a sensitive stomach or anyone under the age of 15-16...." Read more

"This is a very weird book - but then, so was the show. I think that unless you have watched the series a couple of times, it just makes no sense...." Read more

"...However, be warned that this is a very dark book." Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars I knew the score: Sheryl was wild!
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018
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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.
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Mel G
5.0 out of 5 stars The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2015
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Wonderful novel entailing the life of homecoming queen Laura Palmer from 12 years old to the events in Fire Walk With Me. I'd been waiting for a good opportunity to get this book, and I had requested the neighborhood bookstore order it but 5 months and several visits later and I'd never heard anything back so I called it a lost. Until recently when I realized how easy it would to write a paper comparing Twin Peaks (mainly Laura though of course) to a piece I had read in my college English class. I ordered it and read it in between bus rides to campus, and it was so difficult to put it down and not miss my stops. It was so interesting to be able to read through Laura's point of view versus where in the series everyone i s recalling Laura in their own ways. It is very heart breaking to read Laura as this little girl who just wants to be good and one day to love and be loved by someone. To the Laura we have by Fire Walk With Me. It has some continuity errors, but few I think. It does contain things mentioned in the show and has mentions of almost every character in the series as well it is definitely worth the read if you're a Twin Peaks fan. Especially with the new season coming out next year, this is a good way to get in the mood for it. (or be absolutely emotionally wrecked, but I'm sure it depends on the person.)
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4.0 out of 5 stars One and done.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2017
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This book was really enlightening on the life and final days of Laura Palmer, but it was pretty difficult to read. It was creepy to read some of the entries and imagine they were coming from the mind of a 12 year old child, the diary starts off very early in her life and it gets dark FAST. There's some entries that are just a little too descriptive, in my personal opinion. I get that it's supposed to be a diary, but reading entries like that and knowing they were supposed to be coming from a child was a bit too much for me.

It's a great item to have for your Twin Peaks collection and worth reading at least once. I can safely say once is enough for me. You can tell this book was written by a Lynch, that's for sure.
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Simon Omnes
5.0 out of 5 stars Laura Palmer`s secret diary
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2011
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Written by Jennifer Lynch, who is also David Lynch's daughter, this epistolary novel, which was written as a secret diary, gives us further details about the childhood and adolescence of Laura Palmer, starting from her twelfth birthday up to her tragic end five years later, at the hands of BOB. As the years go by, you clearly see Laura's vision of herself degrade as her confrontations with BOB, written in Capital letters as he invades her soul, occur either in the woods, at home, or in her dreams. Personally, I am glad that we can read more of BOB's words, who was a character that rarely spoke on the show, but whose presence always terrified viewers and moviegoers and became one of the most haunting villains on television and cinema.

For the readers who maybe didn't watch the show, this novel stands by itself as a great story and includes beautiful poetry that laura Palmer added in her diary. As for the fans, it offers, according to Laura's perspective, further details on other characters like Audrey Horne, Bobby Briggs and Shelley and certain explanations as to why those characters act the way they do during the series. Not only that, if one reads the book carefully, he or she can guess who is BOB.

In the end, it is a great novel that its editors should re-release on the market either as a paperback, as an audio book or in an electronic version on the Kindle.
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Banosjo
5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE for all Twin Peaks fans!
Reviewed in Canada on May 10, 2024
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Laura Palmer was a very troubled child who only wanted to be loved… at all cost! A must read for all Twin Peaks fans!
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Fiona Apple
5.0 out of 5 stars Laura Palmer I am so sorry I was not your GBF
Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates on November 3, 2024
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Written so beautifully with chills running through each page. I enjoyed it massively.
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katey
5.0 out of 5 stars So good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2024
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such a good book, watch Fire Walk With Me before you read this book. Such a sad book but so good, laura didn’t deserve any of it Definitely recommend
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Marcela Silva
4.0 out of 5 stars Fãs de Twin Peaks
Reviewed in Brazil on February 27, 2020
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Sempre bom descobrir um pouco mais desse universo. Eu amo!
Leitura simples em forma de diário, ás vezes fica fraco, mas no geral amei saber de novas tramas desse universo.
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Rogelio Mendoza
5.0 out of 5 stars De lo mejor
Reviewed in Mexico on February 24, 2019
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Si te gusta Twin Peaks, si apenas estas conociendo este mundo tan fantastico o ya estás adentrado, lo debes de leer.
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