I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom is a 2024 satirical thriller novel by Jason Pargin, published by St. Martin's Press. The standalone novel follows Abbott Coburn, a Lyft driver in Los Angeles, who is hired to transport a passenger and a sealed black box across the United States. The novel deals with internet rumour, paranoia, social media, and isolation.
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- Best I read in 2024:
"I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom"
Highly recommend it to folks, especially if you enjoy Pargin's other works ("John Dies at the End", "Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits"). I am continually in awe at how he is evolving as a writer.
His characterizations and insights convey a unique and profound interest in the world we live in, and it’s clear he takes great care in understanding others and what makes them who they are.
It'll make you rethink some of your relationships / reactions to the current world (social media, other humans, etc.).
- Spoiler: it's all negative content on social media. That's why we all think we're doomed, even though, objectively, we're incredibly lucky to be alive when we are
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