Horror Book # 42 - The Bachman Books by Stephen King - Book 2: The Long Walk by Richard Bachman

To my great surprise, The Long Walk is one of the better Stephen King books I've read...  It is a bit hard to believe that he wrote most of it while in college. How has this book not been made into a movie yet? The premise is simple... sometime in the near future there is a competition where 100 teenage boys see who can walk the furthest. The catch... the competition is to the death. So that motivates them to walk pretty far. Maybe there aren't any specifically scary scenes but there is a growing sense of dread as the walkers all realize they've made a huge mistake. I'll give it an A. Also it mentions Alice in Wonderland.

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost

Well Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier is quite the turnaround from The Secret History of Twin Peaks. Whereas that first book was kind of a slog and provided almost no concrete answers to pretty much anything, The Final Dossier is a fast read that fills in some the narrative gaps from the television show (both the original and The Return). It is presented as a final report compiled by Agent Preston about Twin Peaks in the wake of the series finale. Some of the questions we gets answers to... How's Annie? Who was the young girl from New Mexico? Who was funding the glass box experiment? Whatever happened to Donna? To Audrey? The book also provides a convincing reason for the inconsistencies in the previous book concerning Norma's family. So it was fun to get these answers but in a sense part of the fun of Twin Peaks is not about getting answers but over-examining small details in a fruitless attempt at making sense of the mysterious and unanswerable. B+

Also it mentions One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.