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When the Internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles and the government passes the draconian NET Recovery Act.
For Gladstone, the Net's disappearance comes particularly hard, following the loss of his wife, leaving his flask of Jamesons and grandfather's fedora as the only comforts in his Brooklyn apartment.
But there are rumors that someone in New York is still online. Someone set apart from this new world where Facebook flirters "poke" each other in real life and members of Anonymous trade memes at secret parties. Where a former librarian can sell information as a human search engine and the perverted fulfill their secret fetishes at the blossoming Rule 34 club.
With the help of his friends - a blogger and a webcam girl, both now out of work - Gladstone sets off to find the Internet. But is he the right man to save humanity from this Apocalypse?
For those of you wondering if you have WiFi right now, Wayne Gladstone's Notes from the Internet Apocalypse examines the question "What is life without the Web?"
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 5 hours and 23 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: March 4, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IAS1HVK
Anyone that read Gladstone's serial novella 'Notes From The Internet Apocalypse' on Cracked.com and enjoyed it will absolutely love this novel. It causes you to think about what you would do if the internet suddenly disappeared, without you even realizing it. The novel brought me to laughter one page, and had me on the verge of tears the next, which takes a lot since it's just text on a sliver of pulp from a dead tree.
I had a beautiful dose of irony while reading this today, which is that I ended up acting as tech support for a family member. It almost made me wish for an Internet Apocalypse of our own!
By Kenny
Being relatively familiar with Gladstone's writing, I expected to like this book.
But I was surprised by how much I liked it.
I expected a sort of absurdist, darker-humor satire about society and internet culture, and Notes From the Internet Apocalypse certainly has those elements. But alongside that valid social commentary is a functionally alcoholic, depressive, vaguely pornographic, romantic, tortured sort of desperation that anyone who has spent countless hours locked to a tiny glowing screen should be familiar with.
Well-written and engaging, with a personable narrator and aptly phrased opinions & criticisms about the familiar world of the Internet and it's communities (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Reddit, Digg, 4chan; each gets a welcome turn in the spotlight), Gladstone's novel is a worthwhile read and deserves a spot on the shelf of anyone who has gotten lost in a bottle and a laptop to distract themselves from their own lives, or anyone who considers themselves to be an Internet addict for one reason or another.
Bottom line? Notes From the Internet Apocalypse is an intelligent appraisal of our general treatment of & perspective on the Internet intertwined with a wonderfully personal narrative and a witty handling of what life is with the Internet and what it might be without the Internet. Caustic one-liners and friendly jibes about the Internet and the people who use it, likeable characters, simple, yet thought-provoking plot-line with entertaining twists and turns. Gladstone had me at the halfway-point, but he hooked me by the end. Highly recommended.
By Josh Paustian
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