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'MAGNIFICENT' Alan Moore
'I COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN' Ron Howard
'CHILLING AND UTTERLY IMMERSIVE' M. R. Carey

It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism…

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1 author picked The Last Days of Jack Sparks as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jack Sparks isn’t a pleasant man.

He’s the type of protagonist to elicit an eyeroll and hope he gets his just desserts, and yet Jason Arnopp created such an exciting world that challenged the protagonist and reader alike. I remember wanting nothing but bad things to happen to Jack due to his attitude, but Jason’s writing also endeared him to me.

I soon found myself loving this ridiculous man with a skeleton or two in his closet that helped explain the man he became. It’s such a trippy book and not once did I understand where it was going –…

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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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