Digital Fortress by: Dan Brown
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Publisher: Corgi Books
Release date: 28th August, 2009
Media: Paperback
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- Better than i expected
This book is actually not DB's worse which a lot of people claim. I thought it was much better than had been claimed and i found it just as good as the rest.
Rating: - I really love this book
There is quite a mixed set of reviews for this book. I am suprised because I really loved this book. I thought the storyline was really individual. It is completly different to the Da Vinci code, it is a completly different situation and has completly different characters. Like all Dan Browns books this kept me completly addicted to the storyline. I enjoyed the suspence that Brown created and I loved the way that he misleaded you throughout the story! I could tell that this was a first novel, the writing was not as experienced as The Da Vinci code but I also thought the novel was fresh and different from lots of other things you read! I really loved it. But judging from the amount of negative reviews that this book has recieved, maybe you could borrow the book from a library and then buy it if you really love it like me!
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- A good thriller but less cultural than we could sin cerra expect
An early novel, before Leonardo Da Vinci and his mysteries, that aims first at creating a suspense packed story. Imagine the central national data storing unit in the United States, and the central intelligence computer dedicated to breaking codes and then to eavesdropping on the whole planet. Pretty fishy and pretty dangerous, particularly because over-shadowy and under-transparent. This central brain of US intelligence is under attack from a disgruntled fired Japanese agent and from a civil liberties militant who is also a computer freak and wizard who has managed to get into the sanctum. Add to that a megalomaniac paranoid boss, or sub-boss who wants to invent the absolute universal and invisible backdoor for all digitalized communication in the world, and you will have the subject matter for a catastrophic thriller, for a new Inferno under a dome, but 12 years before Stephen King. And catastrophic it is, though saved at the last minute or second though the skin of the ball-sack of everyone, including the women in the story is singed. The story is entirely built around this attack and the finding of the prime numerical key password that will stop the attack. Of course I am not going to reveal that key number, but I will admit it is a simple solution and it is amazing that all these people who have PhDs, are code-retrievers and decoding cryptographers do not know the various atomic masses of the various uranium isotopes. You do not need a PhD in nuclear physics to know that. Even Dan Brown knows it, who has no PhD in that field. But I guess we can let that go even if the last ten pages are slightly marred though we wonder what other solution they could find since that one is so obvious and neglected. Yet the novel is a lot more than just that suspense. It is haunted in fact by the fundamental syndrome that has run in American literature for decades, from post war science fiction to today's thrillers with Stephen King's Firestarter, The Stand, to only name two novels, and many other authors and titles before, in-between and after. The myth of the "shop at Langley", of the "CIA inner circle", of the "FBI profiling laboratory", or the "military scientific manipulating labs" where they study killing bacteria and other DNA frightening fantasies if not fascinating genetically modified cloning. Here Dan Brown adds to that strain of frightening inspiration the fear of ordinary people in front of computers, the fear for civil liberties, the freedom of expression, or other fundamental liberties. It is mostly paranoid, unjustified and yet so effective in the media. The sentimental, and even sentimentalese, wrapping of the story is just what it is, a fancy wrapping paper. Yet the deeply cultured nature of Dan Brown comes back sincerely when he alludes to some Spanish Renaissance phrase that has to do with marble carving. In this book, alas, that's practically the only instance of artistic reference. And that is definitely a drawback.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis, University of Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID Boulogne Billancourt
Rating: - Yeah quite good. Enjoyed the chase
I'm not a massive reader of books but thought this was a good story. Coming from a technical background, I was not dismayed at the usual comparisons to computer technology and cringe worthy buzzwords. I enjoyed the two main characters struggle to reach their goals. Your assumptions of character's agendas were brilliantly smashed in a nice tie up at the end.
I could not work out the code on the last page though. It wasn't anything to do with the story but would have been good to know what it meant.
Graham
Rating: - Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
This was bought for my son for Xmas, excellent read, arrived quick and in excellent condition, he was very pleased,
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