Notes from the Internet Apocalypse: A Novel Author: Wayne Gladstone | Language: English | ISBN:
B00ERU1ADA | Format: PDF
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse: A Novel Description
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?"
- File Size: 1034 KB
- Print Length: 225 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1482964910
- Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (March 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ERU1ADA
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,068 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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
Okay, so this author, Wayne Gladstone, is a Cracked.com mainstay, and his Hate by Numbers series changed the way many of us critique our video feeds. When I picked up his novel, I expected a lot. The funny, the level vision, even the flashes of perplexed pain I'd met with in his columns. He'd already posted the original novella, and it seemed this would be a logical expansion, a fine time on a satirical adventure.
What I didn't expect? Characters that turn and meet my eyes. An inviting city under my feet. Encounters that render parodies human. Dread that latches on and turns pages, even as it has me denying solutions. Prose that doesn't strike as pretty, but then it sticks. Images difficult to look at, like my father's tears.
The fact that, even if you've read every column, every novella chapter, if you haven't read his book, you haven't read Gladstone.
Not to say there's no funny. Cat lovers beware, and tweeters, best learn to count while you talk. But whatever it is you'd miss, IMDB, Netflix streaming, your friends' feed, those sites they block at work, all the silly, innocent connections we create with what we value, this Apocalypse betrays the nature of the Net we've made.
But now forget all that, because here's the real story, beyond and perhaps behind our online addictions: the Search. Love and meaning at our fingertips... if we could just find the keywords.
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