Are there any books with mood or theme like in afomentioned TV shows? Horror mystery investigation stuff?
>>25637077Pretty sure both shows got novelizations or originql stories written.
>>25637077Interesting question. House Of leaves perhapsalthoughbeitnotexactly
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
>>25637536>The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaHow woke is it?
>>256370771) x-files is a serial noir b-movie.2) Twin Peaks is a postmodern cinematic deconstruction and involution of both the genre form *and* the underlying psycho-sexual trauma inherent in a women's popular and commercial mode of television: the soap opera.For the X-Files, try Agatha Christie. She is a high quality genre writer in the mystery mode, with a very long run of works. Some of which are adequate, some of which are "phoning it in." This replicates the varying quality of the X-Files. Poirot would be a better fuck than Mulder.* * *For Twin Peaks, however, you could consider PKD's complete works. You would need to have read Zizek or Kristeva, your New Testament, and at least some kind of criticism of Jesus as Dionysus to *get* the same effect that Twin Peaks gives to the erudite reader. VALIS should feel like Bob climbing out of your television set.House of Leaves was suggested above, and while it is a nice puzzle piece it isn't exactly based off of a psycho-sexual gender trauma pap genre. Cormac McCarthy's cowboy trilogy is a journey into men's relationships to cowboy books/adventure novels, their own lies to themselves about the Duality of Man, you know, the Jungian Thing sir, and end in an apotheosis in the whore-fight over textual intention and eros and in the freeway underpass sex over forced reading (yes I'm talking about forced reading where a Mexican fucks an 80 year old homeless cowboy) and Thanatos. I think that's an adequate "Bob crawls through your TV set where you don't even know if Laura Palmer matters or was alive even though she was the town's fucking cum biscuit" moment. Having Cormac McCarthy tell you as the Pimp / Author during a knife fight over an already dead whore, "The man who speaks first in a knife fight loses and dies," as he speaks first in a knife fight.So yeah. Go learn about reading hostile narrators and then read Cormac's Cowboy Trilogy. If you don't know what a hostile narrator is, start with All The Pretty Horses reading it as if is a stolen horse story being told down the bar by a drunk man lying to you about his scars.p.s.: Only the Military Commander is tempted by the White Lodge in Twin Peaks because NORAD is pure evil, and only forced good can tempt someone that evil.
>>25637764Almost none at all, actually. I've read both the full and abridged editions. It's set in a number of time periods from the 1960s to the modern day, though 'modern day' is maybe one chapter and is purely story based.It is from the perspective of an adult woman retelling her teenage years and interspersed with a series of letters, memories and recollections from others - including her father. Perhaps the worst part was a single fumbling teenage sex scene that as I recall as not actually explicit, and it reads relatively naturally, not a contrivance. The full edition was fun for the history stuff, but even the abridged edition made me think the book was wearing an opera cape. Through the entire book you have this sense of persistent menace and mystery despite having a rough idea of what's going on. Fantastic read.
look up dark academia literary fiction, some of it sounds like what youre looking for
>>25637077This may be a stretch, but some of the works by GK Chesterton may work.
>>25638019This, I think OP will enjoy "The Man Who Was Thursday."
>>25637077As a fan of both shows. No, not really. You'll just have people recommending you shit that has nothing to do with either show in mood, theme, or quality, just because it vaguely has some shared theme. Someone here already recommended Agatha Christie if you like X-Files, for christ sake. Your best bet will be nonfiction books and/or conspiracy books.
Picrel gives the historical and political conspiracy outlook of Mark Frost, and the vibes that led X Files to gain traction on the heels of a show like Twin Peaks. The Secret History has the murder mystery (and cult) noir cachet, plus a New England equivalent setting with some fantasy/mythical elements, and romance subplots. The Historian will be similar >>25637764Wild Palms tried to cash in on the style but in an LA setting. Northern Exposure's closer. Pete & Pete did it in suburbia for younger kids. Channel Zero was more than decent on the horror end adapting creepy pastas more recently (if the world was in the backrooms of The Red Room).
>>25638024Yah, and some of the Father Brown stories as well.
Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicles
True crime sometimes gets closer to Twin Peaks feel than anything I've read in fiction. I'm sorry I don't have any specific recommends. It's been a long time since I read anything in that genre.
>>25638385True Crime often imports libidinal "Real" via the sexual interior of sexual criminals. This is why it feels like Bob is there.
>>25637077Haruki Murakami is IMO a better David Lynch, and I like Lynch.
Thanks for the suggestions. I've heard of GK Chesterton recently in another context as well.>>25638323I've heard of this. Seems like one of the closest choices.>>25638037I've heard of Peter Levenda, saw some interviews of his back in the day, I might even have one of his books, but I'm looking for fiction.>>25637825>>25638033>Agatha ChristieOf course I know who Christie is. I love the Poirot TV show, although I've never read any of the books. I probably should, but Poirot is not similar to Twin Peaks or X-files.>As a fan of both shows. No, not really.That's fucking weird. You'd think there was more, as both shows have significant fanbase. There are some X-files novels, but I guess I prefer something in the ballpark but not literally that.I'm an (unpublished) author, so maybe that's something I should think of writing.
>>25638920The more I think about it, the more I am convinced Chesterton is the best author. Even he wrote about the miraculous or strange within the everyday, And he was a very talented writer of mysteries and detective series.
>>25637077Dirk Gently
>>25637077If you're here for the Lynch(ed) weirdness and surrealism then >>25638019 and >>25638039 are a solid bet. If you like those for the mystery soap in fog and pinecones played straight, scandinavians airport novel writers produce industrial quantities of crime stories in conniferous forest small towns.
>>25638435I have never read Murakami-San but I am super dubious about comparing Lynch films with any literature. The great appeal of Lynch to me is that you could never put into words what he puts into image and sound. If you verbalized his films it would be a mix of nonsense and bare-bones genre schlock (which I suppose many consider his films to be), but watching his films is like an out of body experience or something. And Twin Peaks is probably his best work, I wish I could have seen it when it was airing live on prime time television, felt American reality crack at the seams
>>25639336If Chesterton is good, why isnt he talked about more??
>>25639501>The great appeal of Lynch to me is that you could never put into words what he puts into image and soundLacanKristevaZizek
>>25639336It's not simply about being crime novel. There are countless of those, but the supernatural, occult or otherwise esoteric aspects of Twin Peaks and X-files are the point. Supernatural investigation stuff that doesn't feel cheap, I suppose.
>>25639501>you could never put into words what he puts into image and soundWell true you won't get his unique perspective and I value Lynch's perspective and ability to translate that to the screen, but Murakami gives you the ability to imagine your own surreal magical mystery, which is arguably better depending on what you are after.
>>25638033>Someone here already recommended Agatha Christie if you like X-Files, for christ sake.People really are fucking retarded aren't they
>>25640793At least he's capable of reading. That's kind of achievement nowadays.
Much of H.P. Lovecraft's work is written from the point of view of someone investigating eldritch horrors.
>>25640793>>25641000Maybe cunts X files is vacuous revelation porn just like
>>25637960>It is from the perspective of an adult woman retelling her teenage yearsok so fem slp
Sherlock fucking holmes bro
I've been reading The Magus (John Fowles) and I have no idea how the story is going to turn out, but it definitely has an X-files Twin Peaks feeling to it. What's great is it's also just written extremely well whereas modern books like Wayward Pines often wear those influences on their sleeve, but make me feel stupider having read them.
The Mothman Prophecies
>>25642119Maybe you should kill yourself
>>25637077Naked Lunch The Atrocity Exhibition A Wild Sheep Chase & Dance Dance DanceThe Box Man/The Ruined Map/Secret RendezvousThe Third Policeman
>>25639501Season 2 has a lot of bloat, Season 1 is good, but Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet are certainly Lynch's best work.
