Notes From the Internet Apocalypse

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"When the Internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data, instant messages, 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 further 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 fans of David Wong, Chad Kultgen, and Chuck Palahniuk, Wayne Gladstone's Notes from the Internet Apocalypse examines the question "What is life without the Web?""-- Provided by publisher.

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No Net, No Fun submitted by Jan Wolter on June 13, 2014, 7:14pm I guess this is supposed to be a sort of absurdist comedy, satirizing our addiction to the internet. I wasn't really all that amused, but I was sufficiently interested to keep reading. Given the way it was going, I was kind of surprised that it turned out to have any kind of sensible ending at all, but it wasn't really all that satisfactory an ending.

Lots of obscenity.

Thought Provoking submitted by KaileyH20 on June 17, 2014, 3:56pm Gladstone does a great job painting a picture of how integrated we've become in Internet culture, and how that would pan out if the plug were suddenly pulled on this existence. The majority of the book delves deep into the out-of-control spiral that would accompany such an abrupt stoppage of our current lifestyle. This is an engrossing thought exercise for the reader. However, the ending feels incomplete, shallow, and on the verge of a cheap cop-out after the depth displayed in the rest of the book.