I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom: A Novel
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A 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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Community Reviews
Well, the narrator did a good job at making sure Abbot would be ridiculously annoying. The whole middle section felt like it was a bunch of ranting from some annoying person who doesn't actually know anything. I guess that was the point, about these people and their toxic chronically online status and inciting other like minded people to be dumb and do crazy things. But it was really hard to get through, especially when that's all that's happening for a while. It had a promising start, but then had these rants and life lesson lectures that dragged it down, and then finally starts picking up again towards the end, although another pet peeve of mine is having things hinge on some miscommunication. I was hoping this would be weird and funny and have a quick pace, but this just felt disappointing overall.
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