The Ghost Network

Rainbow Rowell s Fangirl for adults, written with a penchant for old maps and undocumented 15th century explorers For literary readers with a taste for suspense two women hunt for a missing pop star and become ensnared in her secret society, following clues through the dark underbelly of Chicago.A frightening, whip smart adventure through Chicago that begins when a pop star, Molly Metropolis, disappears before a major performance And two young women who set out to find her At first, the mystery of her disappearance is a lighthearted scavenger hunt until they both realize that they re in greater danger than they could have ever imagined. Read The Ghost Network – kino-fada.fr Enormous fun a faux academic text true crime account, replete with footnotes, about the disappearance of a fictional pop star, that takes numerous detours into various ideas, conspiracies, and subplots It s ostensibly the story of Molly Metropolis a very Lady Gaga esque figure going missing, closely followed by a fan who was looking for her, music journalist Caitlin Taer, but it spins off into an exploration of situationism, psychogeography, and Chicago s public transport system Admittedly Enormous fun a faux academic text true crime account, replete with footnotes, about the disappearance of a fictional pop star, that takes numerous detours into various ideas, conspiracies, and subplots It s ostensibly the story of Molly Metropolis a very Lady Gaga esque figure going missing, closely followed by a fan who was looking for her, music journalist Caitlin Taer, but it spins off into an exploration of situationism, psychogeography, and Chicago s public transport system Admittedly the examination of such concepts is all very surface level, but it s still clear the book has aspirations towards somethingcomplex than a conspiracy thr...I don t know whose bright idea it was to describe this as Fangirl for adults, because that is absolutely one of the most misguided comparisons I can imagine That s like watching Inception and describing it as The Breakfast Club for adults They re not really the same thing at all, except that they re both stories told in the same medium Just wildly different stories, that s all So if you came to this book expecting an adult version of Fangirl, you are going to be incredibly disappointed Th I don t know whose bright idea it was to describe this as Fangirl for adults, because that is absolutely one of the most misguided comparisons I can imagine That s like watching Inception and describing it as The Breakfast Club for adults They re not really the same thing at all, except that they re both stories told in the same medium Just wildly different stories, that s all So if you came to this book expecting an adult version of Fangirl, you are going to be incredibly disappointed That s a breezy young adult novel about anxiety and romance this is dense, slow moving metafiction at its meta iest Marisha Pessl s fans are way, waylikely to enjoy this than Rainbow Rowell s the basics of the p...There have been novels that mask themselves as nonfiction kind of like mockumentary films for a long time, but the genre has never really taken off This book shows a lot of the pros and cons that come with this style The subject matter a Lady Gaga esque pop star who disappears doesn t require this kind of format, but it s not a bad choice when you have a character who s heavily invested in research Especially if it s obscure art and philosophy and cartography, like you have here When you There ha...I have so many feels about this book Are we allowed to still say feels in 2015 Ah, who cares I have them Any book that takes me this long to read because the fictional elements blend so seamlessly with the actual historical anecdotes that I end up lost on Wikipedia reading about the too crazy to believe it was real life reality is going to be one of my lifetime favorites Combine that with LGBTQA main characters and a pop culture laden plot and I am completely and totally 100% smitten.I I have so many feels about this book Are we allowed to still say feels in 2015 Ah, who cares I have them Any book that takes me this long to read because the fictional elements blend so seamlessly with the actual historical anecdotes that I end up lost on Wikipedia reading about the too crazy to believe it was real life reality is going to be one of my lifetime favorites Co...Sounded promising but ended up being a huge drag, very un fun and annoying Oh my god, holy shit was it bad.I wanted to love this book its description piqued my interest as a puzzling plot that would tap a Westing Game vein Instead, The Ghost Network is an homage to the amount of research Disabato did on a seemingly obscure French philosophy Why Disabato is interested in Situationist theory, I don t know, but the book reads very much as though it s her fascination we re following and not really Molly s.The journalistic approach Disabato takes is uneven her footnotes are sometimes presented acade I wanted to love this book its description piqued my interest as a puzzling plot that would tap a Westing Game vein Instead, The Ghost Network is an homage to the amount of research Disabato did on a seemingly obscure French philosophy Why Disabato is interested in Situationist theory, I don t know, but the book reads very much as though it s her fascination we re following and not really Molly s.The journalistic approach Disabato takes is uneven her footnotes are sometimes presented academically and are some...I have complicated feelings about this The premise is great, and the story, when focused on the characters and the mystery, is excellent The story of Molly Metropolis is wonderful, and the created history is interesting However, the format of the book Disabato filling in the manuscript for her deceased mentor, Cyrus K Archer allows her to extend tangents well beyond the point of interest for me, at least I feel confident that now I know which niche interests take up space in Disabato s I have complicated feelings about this The premise is great, and the story, when focused on the characters and the mystery, is excellent The story of Molly Metropolis is wonderful, and the created history is interesting However, the format of the book Disabato filling in the manuscript for her deceased mentor, Cyrus K Archer allows her to extend tangents well beyond the point of interest for me, at least I feel confident that now I know which niche interests take up space in Disabato s mind.For the first 100 or so pages of this, I wasn t sure if I was going to abandon it or not The last 100 pages or so made me want to finish it There are some extended philosophical explanations in the early half that I found incredibly boring, and could not tell you, after finishing the book, what the Situationists were about, since I ended up skimming most of those sections, waiting for plot But when the plot arrived, I found it totally great and interesting not top notch mystery, but Tana French spoil...This book is mostly ok but if you re going to write a book about popular music, get your facts straight There was one glaring error a little over half way through that caused me to quit reading Early David Bowie is the late 60s early 70s not the early 80s and Ziggy Stardust is most definitely n...At first I was into it The whole larger than life pop star goes missing thing was fun enough and kept me engaged for the first hundred pages or so.Then I got a little lost trying to keep track of all the Situationist mythology and the consistently growing cast of characters with silly names But I was still sort of enjoying it, so I kept reading.Towards end, I felt like every paragraph read something like this Nix and Taer thought Molly didn t like Nix even though Ali said that Peaches thoug At first I was into it The whole larger than life pop star goes missing thing was fun enough and kept me engaged for the first hundred pages or so.Then I got a little lost trying to keep track of all the Situationist mythology and the consistently growing cast of characters with silly names But I was still sort of enjoying it, so I kept reading.Towards end, I felt like every paragraph read something like this Nix and Taer thought Molly didn t like Nix even though Ali said that Peaches thought Molly said Nix was cool Berliner makes a pop culture reference, and Peaches looked at Molly who didn t exactly trust Berliner, but Peaches and Taer have been really close to Molly ever since Nix first met her It was like reading a transcript of some annoying girl who gossips too much about dumb shit I couldn t help thinking shut up and just tell me what really happened Pro...Framed in the style of an academic treatise, this book tells the story of the disappearance of Molly Metropolis, world famous pop star, and the people who get lost trying to find her.The concept of this book is really interesting, and I love books that are told in an unconventional fashion butThe Ghost Networkjust got caught up in dull tangents on, for example, the invented philosophy that fascinates Molly I think this book would have been muchengaging if it had actually shown the doc Framed in the style of an academic treatise, this book tells the story of the disappearance of Molly Metropolis, world famous pop star, and the people ...

• English
• 23 March 2018
Catie Disabato
• Paperback
• 282 pages
• 1612194346
• Catie Disabato
• The Ghost Network