Book Review: Network Apprentice

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June 14

Network Apprentice

by Graydon "Dee" Hubbard

Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire

ISBN: 9798891322240

Print Length: 322 pages

Publisher: Atmosphere Press

Reviewed by Chelsey Tucker

Julie Anders is an apprentice at the new network MRABC. She provides data research for the network shows including the Dan Panders' Show. Dan Panders is the hottest new host in talk television and with Julie's numbers-driven research, they try to expose misleading media coverage and Congressional coverups. The overlords within the network are extremely "ratings-driven and rabidly-biased" which sparks drama when Julie and Dan don't pander to their political ideology and focus on the truth that the numbers reveal.

The key to Julie's strength in the face of despair stems from her bond with her father. Their bond has been deep since she was in high school and they shared a run-in with an old grizzly bear named Lop Ear. After Lop Ear ate all their food while in the backcountry of Yellowstone, Julie and her father survived off trout they caught and the only surviving food item: peanut butter. They were rescued by the Ranger and a father-son duo, Mark and Jason-Jerrold Jennings.