Subject: Re: TP score
From: abbott@mobius.ACA.MCC.COM (Jeff Abbott)
Date: 1990-09-10, 13:09
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: abbott@mobius.UUCP (Jeff Abbott)

In article <1990Sep10.153316.15931@portia.Stanford.EDU> ncc1701a@portia.Stanford.EDU (ncc1701a) writes:
> >
> >After picking up this weeks "TV Guide", I was suprised to see such
> >incompetents (sp?) try to solve the mystery of "Who killed Laura
> >Palmer?"  Reading such trite and hackneyed ideas from four of the most
> >"prolific" and "respected" authors got my goat.

I agree. although Tony Hillerman is one of the most respected
mystery writers around, he seems to have missed the whole point of
Twin Peaks. The  story is not supposed to be a standard mystery,
where clues and motives all must be hinted at through the course of
the story. Rather, Lynch is toying with the most basic dictates of
the mystery genre to  tell his story in a new and interesting way.

I write mysteries in my spare time and Lynch really does break most of
the rules. Hillerman doesn't understand that. The other  "authors"
comments (Jackie Collins, Andrew Greeley) were, IMHO, pretty idiotic.

Incidentally, TwinPeaks fans who really like Deputy Hawk might like
Tony Hillerman's mysteries. They're set on the  Navajo reservations
in New Mexico and Arizona and his detectives are Navajo Tribal Police
officers. The stories usually concern murder tied up with Navajo
religious/mystical beliefs and are generally very well-written.

Wrapped in plastic,

Jeff Abbott
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