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    Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom: The Future Next Door, #1

    By Brian Olsen

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    Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves – drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan’s new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead. The mysterious megacorporation Amalgamated Synergy has taken a deadly interest in Alan and his three roommates, and the hapless quartet are woefully unequipped to deal with the psychotic secretaries, murderous middle managers, and villainous vice-presidents hunting them down. Their investigation leads them deep into Amalgamated Synergy’s headquarters, but can Alan and his friends stay alive long enough to discover who – or what – waits for them on the top floor?

    Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom is the first book of The Future Next Door, a contemporary urban science fiction comedic thriller series in four parts.


    Book One: Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom
    Book Two: Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell
    Book Three: Mark Park and the Flume of Destiny
    Book Four: Dakota Bell and the Wastes of Time

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Olsen
    Release dateJun 23, 2013
    ISBN9781501419843
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    Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom: The Future Next Door, #1
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    Brian Olsen

    Brian Olsen is a writer and stage director living in New York City. He's the author of Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom, the first book in The Future Next Door series. He's also written a number of plays, sketches and monologues for the stage. He lives in the Bronx with many loud but friendly neighbors, and was sorely tempted to just fill this page with his online dating profile.rofile.

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    Reviews for Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom

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    • 5/5
      Not my usual read, and frankly it took a while for me to get into it. From page one, it intrigued me, but I was trying too hard to figure things out. When I decided to go along for the ride, I was hooked. Alan is bored. The temp work gets that way fast for him and he has a habit of running out on the job. Things are different when he realizes that there's something weird going on. A series of coincidences pique his interest and suddenly he's reeled into the trap.An addictive video game and a huge corporation have too many things in common for Alan and his roommates to ignore.I recommend this book to anyone looking for a fun read with a bunch of raving lunatics.
    • 3/5
      Temp workers suck. Everyone knows this. Every big company has a big mainframe computer which is perfectly aware at how much the temp workers suck. Because, all temp workers do is fuck around all day. They check facebook. They play stupid fucking video games, instead of actually doing any work.

      This book is about one such mainframe computer which has had enough of its stupid goddamn temp workers. So it starts mind-controlling its long-term employees, making them kill off those useless fucking temps.

      Sounds like an interesting premise, right? Well, not so much. See, most of this book is stupid bullshit temp worker horseshit. People fucking around, not doing any work, and just being boring little shits. And going to the fucking bar with their friends, chatting about how stupid and useless they are.

      Sure, there are several murders, here and there. But, nobody really knows why. All they know, for the first 80% of this book, is that people at this huge corporation are going slightly insane. They're not themselves. We don't find out that they're mindless drones, controlled by the evil mainframe, until the last 20% of the book.

      And then, like a fucking Scoobie-Doo episode, the evil mainframe finally reveals herself, through one of her trusted drones. She corners the fucking useless temp cunts in an office, and spews her whole goddamn evil plan. Along with the standard "And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you useless fucking temp workers!"

      It was actually an interesting story, in the end. But it wasn't a 312 page story. It was maybe worth 100 pages, at best. Because there's just too much bullshit filler, with stupid 20-something cunts partying it up and wasting everyone's fucking time.
    • 2/5
      Unappealing narrators (except for one, who wasn't Alan), unsettling relationships, unbelievable action, sadly predictable deaths, flat comedy, and disappointing resolution.Why I didn't hate it fully: the writing was easy to follow, and I like some of the ideas.CW: tragic gay romance; lazy, lying coworkers
    • 1/5
      DNF. Bleah.