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I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom : A Novel by Jason Pargin (2024, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-10125028595X

ISBN-139781250285959

eBay Product ID (ePID)4064610907

Product Key Features

Book TitleI'm Starting to Worry about this Black Box of Doom : a Novel

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Humorous / General

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorJason Pargin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-019603

Dewey Edition23/eng/20240506

Reviews"A madcap thriller with sharp social commentary from Pargin." - William Earl, Variety "Strident and timely, the dark humor of this wild standalone adventure from Pargin evokes satirists like Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams for a new age... It's a raucous roller-coaster ride." -- Publisher's Weekly "A comical road trip that may end in mass destruction...Wacky, thoughtful, and fun." -- Kirkus Reviews "A road trip through America that is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. Jason understands humanity better than most, and it's inspiring that his diagnosis is ultimately optimistic." -- Daniel O'Brien, Senior Writer, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver "I was hooked from the first page. If I'm honest, from the first sentence or two. Jason has a rare gift for delivering High Weirdness coated in a sticky layer of real life, deeply relatable shit that forces you to see yourself in whatever weirdo or maniac he introduces. It's a rare gift, but he's got a lot of those. You should read this book." -- Robert Evans, Host of Behind the Bastards "Jason Pargin's curse is a brain that can make sense of what we're all living through. His gift is an ability to take the key elements -- paranoia, screen addiction, deep loneliness, fear of the end times -- and hocus-pocus them into a comic thriller. Illuminatus! for an even weirder time, and with much cooler cars." -- David Weigel, national political reporter, Semafor "Jason Pargin has a unique grasp on all the ways our relationship with information technology has warped our brains and our society as a whole. This latest work is a fun, socially relevant, and propulsive work of satire. Well, mostly satire: The way its characters fabricate dangerous narratives out of whatever information they can access is terrifyingly true to life. I felt personally called out a dozen times and I loved every page of it." -- Matthew Kitchen, Editor, Chron, "Strident and timely, the dark humor of this wild standalone adventure from Pargin evokes satirists like Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams for a new age... It's a raucous roller-coaster ride." -- Publisher's Weekly "A road trip through America that is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. Jason understands humanity better than most, and it's inspiring that his diagnosis is ultimately optimistic." -- Daniel O'Brien, Senior Writer, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver "I was hooked from the first page. If I'm honest, from the first sentence or two. Jason has a rare gift for delivering High Weirdness coated in a sticky layer of real life, deeply relatable shit that forces you to see yourself in whatever weirdo or maniac he introduces. It's a rare gift, but he's got a lot of those. You should read this book." -- Robert Evans, Host of Behind the Bastards "Jason Pargin's curse is a brain that can make sense of what we're all living through. His gift is an ability to take the key elements -- paranoia, screen addiction, deep loneliness, fear of the end times -- and hocus-pocus them into a comic thriller. Illuminatus! for an even weirder time, and with much cooler cars." -- David Weigel, national political reporter, Semafor "Jason Pargin has a unique grasp on all the ways our relationship with information technology has warped our brains and our society as a whole. This latest work is a fun, socially relevant, and propulsive work of satire. Well, mostly satire: The way its characters fabricate dangerous narratives out of whatever information they can access is terrifyingly true to life. I felt personally called out a dozen times and I loved every page of it." -- Matthew Kitchen, Editor, Chron, "Strident and timely, the dark humor of this wild standalone adventure from Pargin evokes satirists like Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams for a new age... It's a raucous roller-coaster ride." -- Publisher's Weekly "A comical road trip that may end in mass destruction...Wacky, thoughtful, and fun." -- Kirkus Reviews "A road trip through America that is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. Jason understands humanity better than most, and it's inspiring that his diagnosis is ultimately optimistic." -- Daniel O'Brien, Senior Writer, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver "I was hooked from the first page. If I'm honest, from the first sentence or two. Jason has a rare gift for delivering High Weirdness coated in a sticky layer of real life, deeply relatable shit that forces you to see yourself in whatever weirdo or maniac he introduces. It's a rare gift, but he's got a lot of those. You should read this book." -- Robert Evans, Host of Behind the Bastards "Jason Pargin's curse is a brain that can make sense of what we're all living through. His gift is an ability to take the key elements -- paranoia, screen addiction, deep loneliness, fear of the end times -- and hocus-pocus them into a comic thriller. Illuminatus! for an even weirder time, and with much cooler cars." -- David Weigel, national political reporter, Semafor "Jason Pargin has a unique grasp on all the ways our relationship with information technology has warped our brains and our society as a whole. This latest work is a fun, socially relevant, and propulsive work of satire. Well, mostly satire: The way its characters fabricate dangerous narratives out of whatever information they can access is terrifyingly true to life. I felt personally called out a dozen times and I loved every page of it." -- Matthew Kitchen, Editor, Chron, "A road trip through America that is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. Jason understands humanity better than most, and it's inspiring that his diagnosis is ultimately optimistic." -- Daniel O'Brien, Senior Writer, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver "I was hooked from the first page. If I'm honest, from the first sentence or two. Jason has a rare gift for delivering High Weirdness coated in a sticky layer of real life, deeply relatable shit that forces you to see yourself in whatever weirdo or maniac he introduces. It's a rare gift, but he's got a lot of those. You should read this book." -- Robert Evans, Host of Behind the Bastards "Jason Pargin's curse is a brain that can make sense of what we're all living through. His gift is an ability to take the key elements -- paranoia, screen addiction, deep loneliness, fear of the end times -- and hocus-pocus them into a comic thriller. Illuminatus! for an even weirder time, and with much cooler cars." -- David Weigel, national political reporter, Semafor "Jason Pargin has a unique grasp on all the ways our relationship with information technology has warped our brains and our society as a whole. This latest work is a fun, socially relevant, and propulsive work of satire. Well, mostly satire: The way its characters fabricate dangerous narratives out of whatever information they can access is terrifyingly true to life. I felt personally called out a dozen times and I loved every page of it." -- Matthew Kitchen, Editor, Chron

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisTHE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3623.O5975I47 2024