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title: "The Cobweb"
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# The Cobweb

**Brand:** marc vietorneal stephensonj. frederick georgeaudible studios
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent read
*by J***N on July 1, 2025*

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Well-written. Great story line. But not all the bad guys got what was coming to them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Politics of Bureaucracies
*by P***D on May 16, 2006*

Fans of Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Big U will probably like this for the simple reason that the same sense of gross exaggeration and pinpoint satire is quite prevalent. Quite simply, Stephenson has some fun with this, from his character's names (Desiree Dhont) to 400 pound wrestling freaks.But amongst all the fun there is a more serious bulwark that Stephenson attempts to pierce with this satire cum thriller, that of just how the American intelligence agencies really work (or don't). Starting in 1990, the book covers the national and international events leading up to and through the beginning of the serious start of Gulf War I, with the major lynchpin of the plot revolving around just why there are so many Iraqi students working for their graduate degree at a small mid-west college.For a satire to be effective, there needs to be at least a small kernel of truth buried under all the barbs - and the portrait painted here of just how the CIA, FBI, NSA, and the rest of the alphabet soup really work is frightening because events that have occurred since this book was written (long before 9/11 and WMD intelligence made headlines) show that this portrait, rather than being a gross exaggeration generated by one (or two, in this case) fevered author's mind, is painfully accurate. It is a sad commentary on our government agencies that shows that initiative and proper application of discerning, probing minds to the mass of raw data these agencies receive, rather than being appropriately acted upon and the initiator properly rewarded, is instead bound around by `study' groups, stonewallers, credit grabbers, disavowed by everyone who stands to lose a smidgen of status because they were not the originators, denigrated, have their careers short-circuited, and in short are `cobwebbed'. There is also some sharp commentary on just how foreign policy is formed and implemented, and should be a wakeup reminder to people that the US supported Saddam's regime for a long time merely to have a counterweight to Iran.As a story, this is a pretty good thriller, with a basic story line that is quite believable (as long as you can recognize when Stephenson is having another flight of grand exaggeration). The characterization of the deputy sheriff and the poor low-level GS-11 Washington analyst is good, and the situations they fall into actually proceed quite logically from one point to the next. Most of the rest of the characters are pretty thinly drawn, and in a few cases are mere stereotypes, but they perform their job of moving the plot along pretty well.Not as good as Snow Crash, but it comes close.---Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic Early Stephenson
*by D***L on February 13, 2025*

This was a great read that I couldn’t put down. There are some great characters without giving away anything. Stephenson’s early books have a different style that I like. He is a great story teller. I highly recommend Cobweb.

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