To date, Dana Spiotta has only written two novels, but they're both freakin' brilliant. I can't write fiction to save my life. But if I could, I would want to write like her. Check out this gem from her first effort, Lightning Field.
Mina Stood watching David. David watched the screen, which contained a small screen within the screen that watched some other guy's computer, attended and unmoving. Free-streaming live-feed video. Sometimes you could watch him at his computer. Sometimes he left and you could just watch his computer.
"I can watch him for minutes at a time," David said.
"I do other things. I eat my lunch. I talk on the phone.," Mina said. "I walk around. I see people. I smell things. I take baths, David." "You know what I pray for?" Mina said. "I pray for the day I pick up the paper and they discover that the Internet is a big failure and everyone is wrong and no one wants to use it anymore."