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Summary: cardboard characters in a video game
Review: Too bad, there might have been a book here, but wooden characters and stodgy plot creaking along certainly doesn't make it worth the reading time.. actually you can read it really quickly by reading every other page. You won't miss anything.
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Summary: Pull the plug!
Review: If you make it to the end, you'll understand my title. During the "crisis" at the end, this was all I could think of yet, for some reason, the characters wouldn't do it. Brown evidently forgot that to write a good book, some research into your subject is necessary and that the plot lines have to be some what plausible.NSA computers connected to the internet. Lame computer-ese. Shallow characters. Ridiculous plot twists. A puzzle at the end a 7 year old could solve. This book has 'em all. If this book were made into a movie, the'd show the actors typing on computer keyboards that make teletype noises and monitors that show the characters they type so large, there are only a few lines of text on the screen. Avoid this book like a virus. I wish I had. In fact, I think Dan Brown, the author, owes me a couple of hours of my life back. The only good thing it didn't cost me any money. I borrowed it from the library.
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Summary: Not that thrilling... Finished begrudgingly.
Review: This book was not horrible but the facts and details it contained really felt like they had been "dumbed down".
This book feels like it is destined to become a "made for T.V. movie." Oh well, perhaps it will have some interesting footage of Spain!
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Summary: entertaining but...
Review: i found the book to be mildly entertaining...
as previous reviews have stated this guys knowledge of computers isn't more than skin-deep (or windows-deep, heh) the plot was fairly predictable and the characters were extermely linear.
i would hope this book is not normal for Dan Brown's work...
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Summary: One of the best reads I've had in a long while!
Review: One of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long while. I can see that some reviewers are more tech savvy than I and recognized inconsistancies in the plot line, however, I was not burdened with such facts when I read this book. I can only say that I was engrossed from the opening page. I found it action packed and a thrill to read. I only wish I could have put it down -- so that I could have savored the experience longer. Suspend disbelief and enjoy this one. I sure did.
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Summary: Beyond bad research
Review: One reviewer mentioned bad research; well that is an understatement. Did the author really refer to X11 as "X-eleven"? Well, yes, several times. It made me wonder if the extent of his research was done verbally in a bar. His "X-eleven" veneer of knowledge seemed to apply to every technical aspect of this book. The only good thing I can say about my experience reading this book was that it was better than reading the in-flight magazine between SF and NY.
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Summary: Painfull and full of holes.
Review: Having read and enjoyed the 'DaVinci Code' I was looking forward to another book by this author. What I found with Digital Fortress was a painfull read full of simplistic plot holes and glaring technical errors. The ending was so bad I felt I had really wasted my time with this book.
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Summary: a little painful
Review: yeah, i live and breath the techie lifestyle, and this book was really bad about its facts in that regaurd. Looking past that, I'm not gonna judge him on this one, cuz from what I've seen, he wrote this book before the others. maybe the innacuracies in this book is what inspired his fact checking in the DVC and A&D?
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Summary: 13 year old figures out code pffft
Review: Well i read the da vinci code...and angels and demons...but this book....At first it went well..action so on so forth....but then you get to the language prof. (forget his name) who speaks perfect german..(although anyone who actually knows german would laugh at this)...although his grammar etc. is completely wrong..... i figured out the code about oh...right when they got the sets of numbers...pffft...it was depressing... a book written by dan brown and a 13 year old cracks code? very disapointing...Brown had the right atitude for the book (letting readers think they were being given a peek into a new and fantastic world) but when i broke the code etc... all of that was gone....the good feeling etc....if the people in the nsa were really that stupid..the usa has no hope i just hope his next book is better
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Summary: good read, bad research
Review: I like this kind of pseudo-scientific high-tech thriller and I found this book while on a business trip in Boise, ID. Dan Brown managed to keep me want to read on and find out what this unbreakable code is about and who's going to get it first.However, I was quite disappointed when he got into languages other than English. I don't know about the Spanish and Italian, but the German used in this book certainly sounded like Mr. Brown had just written up some sentences in English and sent it through some free translation service on the Internet. No native German speaker would talk like the German character in Digital Fortress - wrong words, wrong grammar, wrong everything. What makes it worse is that Mr. Brown keeps pointing out that his main character's German was perfect and indistinguishable from the real thing. That might be true - for someone who has never bothered to learn any languages other than English and bad English. Quite obviously Mr. Brown did not intend to have his book read outside the USA. Otherwise he would have put more effort into getting the linguistic side of his - after all - linguist main character right. This lack of research will pretty much prevent me from buying any other of Dan Brown's books.
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