I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
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4.5
Jason Pargin
THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERA standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.But there are rules:He cannot look inside the box.He cannot ask questions.He cannot tell anyone.They must leave immediately.He must leave all trackable devices behind.As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.
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Author
Jason Pargin
Pages
384
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2024-09-24
ISBN
1250285968 9781250285966
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"I have read all of Pargin's books and he is one of my favorite current authors. I liked it a lot. The issue I have is that while the ideas and implications are good, the dialog comes off as forced. To me it's a kind of Kevin Smith-ing of dialog- the author wants these characters to make GREAT insightful points, but it feels as if some of the conversations are just speeches delivered to like-minded people or soliloquies in a Shakespearean drama (they're not natural sounding or occurring).
This doesn't mean that I think Pargin is preaching to the audience, because there is a variety of good characters with completely believable motivations and feelings. I think he was trying to be as realistic as possible considering the world in which we live in today, but it comes off a bit clunky.
I would recommend this book as a place to have conversation about the differences between the left and right, rich and poor, influencer and Uber driver in that the real life experiences of these fake characters can help us think of what the Other Side may be feeling. In today's uncertain America, it could be very helpful indeed. "
Jason Liardi