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Summary: Fast Moving
Review: I'm always surprised to find typographical and/or spelling errors in a mass market paperback. It changes how I ultimately judge a book.
Digital Fortress was a very fast read. I like the short chapters and the simplicity with which the author moves from character to character and in and out of settings.
I'm not a techie but I am an experienced computer user; however, I didn't quite grasp some of the computer jargon. In some cases the simplicity is taken too far....'oh yes, and by the way, he's dead.'
Comic relief, "Captain, she's gonna blow!"
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Summary: 3 out of 4 isn't bad
Review: After devouring all four of Dan's books, this is the only one that I didn't like.In the middle of the book I had a tremendous desire to throw the book away - I wish I had. Way too predictable and dialogue just not up to par. Read the other three. Can't wait for his next book.
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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: This is probably in my top 3 list of books I love. I never wanted to stop reading, each page was filled with excitement and thrills. Although some characters were a little dumb at points it is still an excellent and I reccomend it to everybody.
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Summary: Outstanding Book
Review: After reading his other three books I had to give this a try. Very enjoyable, very fast paced. Looks like this would be a perfect screenplay...
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Summary: Digital Fortress
Review: I truly enjoyed the da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and thought Digital Fortress would be as good. I was disappointed, however, because of the lack of character development. The main characters seemed remarkably similar to those in da Vinci Code without the same depth. The plot is good, but not a page turner. Lastly, the "villians" were "lack luster." It seems that Brown used more foul language and seediness to make up for real content and excitement. I was so disappointed I didn't even finish the book.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Great book - Ignore the reviews from the folks who spend more time analyzing the minutia of the book than actually reading it and enjoying it. It's a good book to read and enjoy, finished it in 24 hours.
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Summary: A page turner, but not up to par
Review: Unfortunately for "Digital Fortress", I heard about Dan Brown from his two most recent blockbusters, "Angels & Demons" and "Da Vinci Code", and thus I read those two before I picked up "Digital Fortress". I believe if I had read his older work first, I would have been more happy with it, and even more excited when I saw the growth into his most recent works. The story was entertaining, and dabbled in topics with which I am familiar (security and privacy). This made me tear through it, but it required some major suspension of disbelief on my part. His liberal use of invented computer science, along with five-year-old technologies and ideas was less than satisfying to someone in the CS field. However, there are many books that I have thoroughly enjoyed that I have no technical knowledge about yet have been fascinated by. Similarly, I believe that someone NOT firmly grounded in bits and bytes will enjoy this book for its fast paced story. The technical aspects aside, this book is still not up to par with Brown's more recent books. His thoughts aren't as well expressed, and some of the sentences and paragraphs are just...tacky. However, Brown's famous 2 page chapters lend themselves well to being read one after the other after the other, and before you know it, you are closing the book. The plot and twists are well planned as usual. Brown is excellent at switching back and forth between three or four characters in their own mini stories without losing the reader in any of the intermingling details. Regardless that I thought I had Brown nailed on some detail every now and then, each is wrapped up nicely by the end of the story. A good deal of hand-holding is done in the final few minutes of the excitement, a slight misjudgment in my opinion: Brown should have given his reader's sleuthing a little more credit at the finale. A fun read, but don't expect great things.
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Summary: Two and a Half Stars
Review: Not nearly as good as The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons. It is very predictable and full of stock characters. It's not terrible and you could certaintly do worse, but a disappointment after reading The Da Vinci Code.
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Summary: Factual, Fast, and Fun
Review: I was introduced to Dan Brown's books only a few weeks ago, but have quickly absorbed all of his published works. It is easy to see why some are comparing his Da Vinci Code to the novel Conquest of Paradise. Both books deal masterfully with the more mysterious features of religion, politics, and science. And both bring to light amazing bits of information, which are weaved into the intricate patterns of an overall compelling story. While Brown compresses labyrinthine plots into brief time periods to provide page-turning suspense, Conquest of Paradise is of epic proportion, covering the entire world. Of the Dan Brown books I've read so far, Digital Fortress is the second best I've read so far behind The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown truly has a talent for creating interesting, suspenseful prose.
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Summary: A Good Book, But Not As Great as Later Books
Review: I think that one of the most interesting facets of this novel is to see Dan Brown's writing evolve. This was his first real novel, and it was rather more simplistic in certain ways than his later novels. That is not to say that it is a bad book; it is excellent and well worth the price of admission. However, the characterizations are not quite as rich, the plots are a bit easier to see through, and so on. This is not necessarily a bad thing, it is just that Mr. Brown had not fully developed his style as a professional writer yet. This novel was about cryptographers and teachers. Much as always, geeks are the heroes in this work, and they are good ones at that. Mr. Brown seems to be quite interested in secrets and also in teaching them to others. All four of his most popular books (Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code) center on rather covert agencies and ideas and in all of them there is a pedagogical figure who is interested in explaining to others the secrets and how they are kept. In the end, this novel follows the general pattern of all of his and of all action-suspense works. It is a fairly well-defined genre. However, the joy in Mr. Brown's work is not in its inherent originality; rather, it is in learning new things (which happens for most of us with each of his books...he has a rather esoteric collection of wisom and makes some positively strange and delightful connections), watching the geeks save the day, and seeing the characters live up to their potentials. Much like his other books, this is a great work, and it is definately worthwhile. If you read only one book this month, read this book. (I have difficulties with the conception that the average American reads one book each year...). Buy it, read it, enjoy it, and share it. Lovely book, Mr. Brown. Great stuff. Keep it up.
Harkius
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