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Messiah
Messiah | Gore Vidal
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When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Now available in a Penguin Classic edition, Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.
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#SeptPhotoChallenge day 22 - scary books

In general, I don't like getting scared, so there aren't many scary books on my shelves (or in the freezer, if you're a "Friends" fan). Dark and depressing is my jam, but intensely suspenseful/horror/terrifying is not. These books are scary, to me, because of their potential to be reality. Some are based on real events, some are reimaginings of a future that could have been. #somethingforsept

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