Long, entertaining rant about the impact of the Internet on our daily lives, disguised as a novel. The blurb describes this bloke as "Kurt Vonnegut for the Twitter Age" and that's pretty accurate. His prose style mimics Vonnegut in every way: the layering, the short sentences, the little asides explaining some aspect of politics or everyday life. His voice comes across as a bit more cynical though, not as warm, more smartarsey. At times it became a little annoying, like when he spends more time than is really necessary explaining the tech companies' impact on the San Francisco housing market, but it never becomes insufferable, and on the whole he manages to hold the Vonnegut impression together throughout 280 pages (another difference - Vonnegut would've brought it in under 200).
At times it manages to be laugh-out-loud funny, and at other times it makes you think about things in unexpected ways - both excellent qualities in a book. The pop-culture references are a few years old but that's good in a way because it's pre-2016, so retains a sort of wide-eyed pre-Trumpian innocence. OTOH, there are lots of typos (bad) and... Well, I might be missing something but some passages are blanked out. This is explained in the intro with references to Jimmy Savile and British libel law, and it made me want to go and read the US version. But I suspect if I read the US version the same crossings-out would be there, just with a different justification because they're part of the joke and I'm just too thick to realise it.