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Pages: 512 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0552151696
Pub: Corgi Books
Pub date: 2004-07-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6109
Reader Reviews:
Drivel (0/0 people found this helpful)
The one redeeming feature of this book is probably that it made Mr. Brown enough money to pay for some airline tickets so he could actually visit the places he wants to write about. Other than that, this one should have been printed on toilet paper. That way it would at least have served a useful purpose.
Mr. Brown shows he understands the craft of writing books but that is not the same as saying this one is actually worth reading. It took me all of 10 seconds to realize that ndakota was an anagram of tankado and anybody with a smidgen of high school physics knows that uranium has two major isotopes, U235 and U238. This makes me smarter than all the geeks in the NSA crypto department if we were to believe Mr. Brown. Some other things that bothered me were:
1)The murders in the book were totally unneccessary and had no function in furthering the story.
2) The "Mary Poppins" nature of his heroes (practically perfect in every way).
3) The severe lack of realism.
Steer away from this one people. I read it while I was on holiday baking in the South of France with nothing better to do and even then I regretted having put it in my suitcase.
Best book i've ever read! (0/0 people found this helpful)
This was one the best books i've ever read. I could not put it down! Highly recommended.
Cryptography held hostage by unbreakable code. (0/0 people found this helpful)
Digital Fortress
This is Dan Brown's first novel and sets the framework for his mature works, Da Vinci Code etc.
One Saturday brilliant head code breaker Susan Fletcher is called in to work at America's ultimate security code breaking establishment by legendary boss Strathmore. She discovers their top secret three million processor 120 foot high super computer had been stuck for fifteens hours trying to break a code.
The action at the crypto centre accelerates as one disaster follows another and suspicion succeeds suspicion in a real page turning read.
At the same time her boy friend David Becker was flown off to Spain to trace a missing ring, an essential sub plot with fine pace but there are unfortunately too many coincidences for it to be convincing rather than fun.
Essential reading for Dan Brown fans.
As expected (0/0 people found this helpful)
This definitely fell into the not bad but not brilliant category. It was classic Brown with short snappy chapters that kept you interested in the fast moving story. Reading other reviews and taking note of their criticisms yes, it was predictable but nevertheless was still entertaining enough for me to feel it wasn't a waste of my time. Highly co-incidental and implausible in places but it had to be to make it work; so long as you don't take these types of books too seriously you'll find yourself enjoying the chase and overdone drama.
I still preferred the Da Vinci Code as I thought the subject matter tapped into our love of conspiracy theories better but considering this was written before the Da Vinci Code it was pretty good.
Ctrl + Alt + Del (0/0 people found this helpful)
Not good...
Having really enjoyed his other books, I sadly found this is a poor read. Very dated and amateurish, it is miles behind the "Code", Angels and Demons and the excellent Deception Point.
If you like Dan Brown, stick with the other three books and avoid this like you would an albino monk with a limp ;o)
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