This novel is a sometimes profane and hilarious, yet strangely poignant, satire about what could happen if all of a sudden the Internet disappeared. (This YouTube book trailer will give you a good feel for the tone of the book.) The author is a long-time columnist for Cracked.com, a website offering all sorts of apparently time-wasting opportunities to entertain oneself with the kinds of lists, infographics, and quizzes that we are all guilty of sharing on Facebook and Twitter. Gladstone has as his main character, his namesake, Wayne Gladstone, who teams up with a blogger friend and webcam girl to go off to find the Internet in Wizard of Oz style. Along the way, the reader is shown the fallout of no Internet: groups of people gathered talking in 140 or less characters; others trying to get cats to repeat stupid tricks because they can’t just hit the play button on YouTube; and even more ubiquitous, the desperate search by many for the kind of porn they got used to online.
--Reviewed by Susie

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