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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
- A Novel
- De: Jason Pargin
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,067
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 996
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 996
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good writing, interesting take, disappointed with ending for me at least
- De wolfman en 09-25-24
- I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
- A Novel
- De: Jason Pargin
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
You'll worry about it too.
Revisado: 10-23-24
Didn't go looking for this one. Came up in suggestions and I tried it with no expectations. Wow. What a ride. Great story. Great narrator.
I'm a generation ahead of the main character and if any of his angst and outlook is based on even a sliver of truth experienced by today's generation, then they are dealing with way more than I imagined. The social media comment macrocosim that threads through this story is funny, telling and worrisom.
This deserves comparisons to Vonnegut. Controversial? Afterward addresses that.
Glad I took a chance on this one.
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Outrageous
- A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
- De: Kliph Nesteroff
- Narrado por: Kliph Nesteroff
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive today, that nobody objected to the actions of actors, comedians, and filmmakers in the past. Modern pundits would have us believe that Americans of a previous generation had tougher skin and seldom complained. But does this argument hold up to scrutiny? In Outrageous, celebrated cultural historian Kliph Nesteroff demonstrates that Americans have been objecting to entertainment for nearly two hundred years, sometimes rationally, often irrationally.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hate to say this is a must read
- De Ben en 03-15-24
- Outrageous
- A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
- De: Kliph Nesteroff
- Narrado por: Kliph Nesteroff
Hate to say this is a must read
Revisado: 03-15-24
It's a must read, to be aware and educated about how long conservative 'think tank' ideology has existed, and how pervasive and regurgitated it has become.
I hate to recommend it, because it only takes a few chapters to understand the depressing rhetoric that gets used over and over and over throughout the decades of pop culture. I finished the book out of appreciation for the work that went into it, but after awhile, the countless examples of chosen and professed ignorance is tough to bare.
But that's why it's a must read. So that one can be aware and not devolve into the same ignorance.
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