{"id":124,"date":"2006-03-18T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/18\/the-cobweb\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T06:36:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T14:36:16","slug":"the-cobweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/03\/18\/the-cobweb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cobweb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-124\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553383442\/sr=8-1\/qid=1142729205\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-8852422-4595354?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"NewWindow\">The Cobweb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>448 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Spectra; Reissue edition (May 31, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0553383442<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read the pair&#8217;s other book, Interface, with great interest (could hardly put it down).  This book was also a page turner.<\/p>\n<p>I like the implication that people are placed in a niche and meant to stay there &#8211; performing tasks beyond your niche results in negative actions against the person, even if they are right.  Feels like a multinational company&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The plot twists and turns quite nicely, and some people die that you are rooting to live.  Quite lively, I recommend both both books by this pair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-124\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 124);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-124\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-124\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Cobweb Author: Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Spectra; Reissue edition (May 31, 2005) ISBN: 0553383442 I read the pair&#8217;s other book, Interface, with great interest (could hardly put it down). This book was also a page turner. I like the implication that people are placed in a niche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,382],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}