How much of our current society and culture do you take for granted? Image a world where the Corporation comes first and controls everything in your life from birth to death. Along the lines of 1984, “Bookworm” by Jason Srebnick will draw you back to an appreciation of many of the things that you now take for granted. Aaron Cogwell is an ideal citizen in the Corporate world of New Boston. He works seven days a week for seventeen hours a day, aided by chemicals that keep his mood in balance. Every thirty-six days he enjoys a four hour stoppage of work, in which he enjoys a few hours of free time with his family. His dream is to have a more spacious living space and more things to display in his display case. He simply doesn’t know that there is any alternative to the world in which he lives until destiny, fate or luck would come his way and he is suddenly thrust out of that life and into a much simpler and more primitive way of life when his pod crashes into the forest. The strange new things in this new, anti-corporate world are at times more than he can take. Will he ever be the same again? Will he ever be able to be happy in the Corporate world?
“Bookworm” is painful at times in its truth. Jason Srebnick has done an excellent job of giving us a look into what our world would look like if everything was run by huge corporations and work and getting ahead was all that mattered. It does this in a way that reminds those of us who have a deep love for the freedom that we have found in our leisure and more importantly in our books. The glaring difference between reading a book by turning the pages and having a book read to you or watching a book on a video is developed in stark contrast. I give high praise to Jason Srebnick for reminding us all that there are a lot of things in this world worth holding onto, even while we reach for our next ebook. Superb! "Bookworm" is destined to be a classic.
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