Im Starting to Worry About This Blac..., Jason Pargin
Im Starting to Worry About This Blac..., Jason Pargin
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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
A Novel

Author: Jason Pargin

Narrator: Ari Fliakos

Unabridged: 12 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2024


Synopsis

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

About Jason Pargin

JASON PARGIN is the New York Times bestselling author of the John Dies at the End series as well as the award-winning Zoey Ashe novels. He previously published under the pseudonym David Wong. His essays at Cracked.com and other outlets have been enjoyed by tens of millions of readers around the world.

About Ari Fliakos

Ari Fliakos is an actor with experience in television, radio, film, theater, and voiceovers. His narration of Seth Patrick’s Reviver won an Audie for paranormal fiction. He has narrated Black Site and Tier One Wild by Dalton Fury, as well as Gangster Squad, The Inquisitor, and Shotgun Lovesongs. On screen, he is best-known for his roles in Law & Order, Pills, and Company K.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jayme on August 28, 2024

This isn’t a book that I would have requested, but I was invited by the Publisher to read it, and I did LOVE the INTRIGUING premise so, I gave it a chance-but it wasn’t for me. OUTLIER OPINION: Outside Los Angeles, a Lyft driver named Abbott pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box.......more

My thanks to St. Martin's Press, Jason Pargin and Netgalley. Well, I didn't think it was possible to not like a Pargin book, yet here I stand corrected. Actually, laying in bed with a horrible sunburn! This book had none of the fun that his other books have. Or....maybe, they had the same amount of f......more

Goodreads review by Miss✧Pickypants on September 24, 2024

Loved this controversial madcap romp of a tale! No spoilers to ruin the fun for other readers, but will say I greatly enjoyed the ridiculous predicaments the characters get themselves into as they travel across the country to deliver the mystery box. And the subreddit comments by redditors as they t......more

Goodreads review by Constantine on June 28, 2024

Rating: ⭐⭐ ½ Genre: Mystery Thriller Abbott is a Lyft driver who encounters a woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 in cash to transport her and the box to Washington, DC. However, she imposes strict rules: no questions and no peeking inside the box. As they embark on their journ......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on November 02, 2024

This book is not about QAnon, but it is the only thing I’ve read that finally explained to me how QAnon became something millions of people believed to be real. When I first heard what they thought, I was blown away that rational people could actually think that a cannibalistic, child molesting, sat......more


Quotes

"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