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Dan Brown
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Pages: (Audio CD)
ISBN: 0743501594
Pub: Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub date: 2004-11-15
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 92772
Reader Reviews:
Lots of Twists and Turns (2/4 people found this helpful)
Dan Brown has had some bad press lately, much of it questioning his ability as a writer. As they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity. I have now read all Brown's books and found them both interesting and innovative. Digital Fortress is possibly the best story of the lot and to go too deeply into the plot would spoil it for the reader.
To give a very general synopsis is probably the best way to approach the plot of the book, so here goes: The US Presidential elections are coming up and the President's chances are not looking too good. The Senator who is vying with him for the Presidency is running a successful campaign against NASA, the American space agency. The Senator is virtually saying that the agency is now a white elephant drawing vast sums of money from the US taxpayer and give virtually nothing in return.
The President of the US then makes a television broadcast stating that NASA have made an earth shattering discovery. The announcement blows his opponents campaign right out of the water.
That is a very brief and broad resume of the book. Without giving too much away, I will just say that the discovery is made under 200ft. of ice in the Arctic and is mind blowing. To say anymore would spoil the story for the reader.
Lightweight and unengaging (3/6 people found this helpful)
Why do I always feel the same about Dan Brown's novels? That is: goodish ideas poorly enacted, essentially leaving me disappointed.
This one doesn't even have the page turning qualities of the Da Vinci Code.
Fine if you have nothing else to listen to on a long journey, but you'll only listen to it once.
You don't want to press stop.... (5/7 people found this helpful)
Bought this audio-cd and listened to it during a rather long car trip and thank God for Drive through restaurants because I did not want to leave the car.
Though there are quite some personal portraits to remember, not to mention government organizations, this book left me longing for it whenever I have to stop listening.
The only downside would be the excessive murder attempts that kind of go over the top a bit but hey, it is fiction, right?
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