I'm wanting to read more books but attention/focus hard
What's the rough concept for the jack sparks book you were talking about? I'm tempted to do the Spotify audiobook 👀
OMG YES ANY EXCUSE TO GUSH ABOUT THIS BOOK! Plus, it’s just so damn good & thrilling! It really starts off with a bang (even if the narrator himself is to stubborn to open his eyes)
Don’t worry about spoilers, I don’t say anything that’s not in the summary or within the first few pages
But the book is about the infamously acclaimed journalist Jack Sparks, who died while writing this book. Author of hits such as Jack Sparks on a Pogo Stick, Jack Sparks on Gangs & Jack Sparks on Drugs, Jack Sparks on the Supernatural was supposed to be his big comeback after rehab.
But after laughing during an exorcism & fucking tweeting about it, shit starts to hit the fan. A very creepy video pops up on his own YouTube channel & is promptly deleted, & no one knows the origins. He starts to dig deeper into the occult. Somewhere along the way he sticks his nose in the wrong place, bites off more than he can chew, & he pays the ultimate price.
Cocky yet lovable son of a bitch & one hell of an unreliable narrator. Mostly in the sense that he wants to come off way more aloof & brave than what actually happened
Headcanons for me myself & I because I’m the only one who cares
Jack Sparks has few friends & isn’t close with very many people. In fact, you might call him an insufferable narcissist. Dude truly never shuts the fuck up, & he basically only ever talks about himself. So those he is close with absolutely have to resort to tickling him if they ever wanna get a word in edgewise
It’s the best way to humble him, so he desperately tries to keep his sensitivity a secret. Can’t let all the people know the great Jack Sparks is *gasp* ticklish!
Even tho he’s not in touch with his brother Alistair anymore, when they were growing up, he was always the loser in their tickle fights. Just comes with being the younger sibling
Whenever they would meet up, Alistair likes to rag on him & tickle him when he’s not expecting it. Because sometimes he needs to be reminded he’s his brother & not only the acclaimed journalist
Bex’s only defense against Jack’s endless blabbermouth & pompous, holier than thou personality is to tickle him senseless. & this really doesn’t help with his hopeless crush on her
Since she’s he’s roomie, she’s basically the only one who tickles him anymore, which he tries not to think about because wtf he should be happy no one does that to him anymore…
He’s already an unreliable narrator so you know he’s in such denial about how ticklish he is. At first he flat out denies it in the most matter of fact tone he can muster. But if you manage to get him to crack he concedes that he might be just a wee bit ticklish, but barely. He just really tries to downplay it
Next thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world & loves nothing more than to rub it in. Sometimes he’ll just be watching tv or trying to work & she pops out of nowhere & wrecks him just for the fun of it. She says just living with him is justification enough
Because he’s investigating the supernatural for this book, he stays in a few haunted hotels & b&b’s to see if he experiences anything. At one of these places, he was woken up in the middle of the night by something tickling him. & not a light tickling either, his room got a noise complaint. The staff were sympathetic & amused because this shit just happens sometimes but he is SO huffy & flustered & is a dick to them all because their ghosts can’t keep their hands to themselves
He does NOT put that in the book. Not only is his entire world view recently shattered because holy shit ghosts are real, but he cannot grapple with the humiliation that he was tickled by one. He’d rather die than put that in his book (HA!)
That’s all I got for now. But this man needs a double dose of humble pie & I had to get my thoughts out
I’d never even heard of Jason Arnopp or his debut novel (outside writing for franchises) before hearing him talk on a panel about unreliable narrators. Ever since I read Poe’s The Telltale Heart as a teenager I have had an enormous soft spot for unreliable narrators, and Jack Sparks has now made it onto my best of list. The Last Days of Jack Sparks is a framed narrative, with a potentially…
'The Last Days of Jack Sparks' is Witty, Scary, and Hilarious
‘The Last Days of Jack Sparks’ is Witty, Scary, and Hilarious
Jack Sparks has become a household name, but not in a good way. His bad attitude and books about difficult subjects have helped to line his pockets, but also have boosted his overwhelming ego. As a self-professed Atheist (and he professes it many times), he claims he does not believe a single bit in the Supernatural. His strongest relationships are with his social media accounts, and respect is a…
'The Last Days of Jack Sparks' is Witty, Scary, and Hilarious
‘The Last Days of Jack Sparks’ is Witty, Scary, and Hilarious
Jack Sparks has become a household name, but not in a good way. His bad attitude and books about difficult subjects have helped to line his pockets, but also have boosted his overwhelming ego. As a self-professed Atheist (and he professes it many times), he claims he does not believe a single bit in the Supernatural. His strongest relationships are with his social media accounts, and respect is a…
Deleted audio from the interview with Jason Arnopp and Alistair Sparks, which Alistair has since tried to suppress due to what he feels is an unfair representation of his personality. Despite the threat of legal action, Jason has decided to release this cut as he believes this gives a more complete picture of the surviving Sparks brother, and the complicated relationship between Jack and Alistair.
I’m not sure where to start on this book because revealing too much would definitely spoil certain points in the story for a new reader. I’ll just start by saying that The Last Days of Jack Sparks,…
