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Meghan posted a review at 2010-03-05 08:38:29.
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I read this book before I bought it. I can honestly say I enjoyed this book so much. I found that this book had lots of negative comments and I can see what lots of those people who don't like this story are saying but I think that there are so many positive points about it. I liked the fresh idea, and the fresh writing. Like all of Dan Browns books I found it instantly exciting and gripping. I loved the plot and the deception involved with it! I thought that the main character and her fiance were exceelent for leading the novel, admittedly I didn't like the action switching between them because it annoyed me becasue I wanted to know what happened, it meant that I was sat up for hours reading chapter after chapter so that I could find out what would happen! All Browns plot to keep you hooked. I generally loved it. I would give it five stars but the problem is that this novel will be compared with the Da Vinchi Code and unfortunately that won't do it any good because it is such an excellent novel. Digital Fortress is an excellent first novel though, one of my favourite books.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-29 10:09:10.
(Language: English)
Un tres bon livre de suspense qui nous tiens en haleine du debut a la fin, avec de nombreux rebondissements que l'on ne voie pas venir et nous deroute toujours un peu plus, on se laisse tres facilement entrainer d'un chapitre vers un autre et on rage souvent quand l'on doit quitter sa lecture en pleine action et dans le gros doute... Du tres grand Dan Brown encore une fois (il avait fait tres fort avec Da Vinci code, il remet cela ici !), il nous tient rive sur le livre tout au long et on se creuse meme les meninges pour reussir a deviner la suite et on se laisse prendre au jeu d'essayer de casser les codes bien que cela soit pas un jeu d'enfant... Les 2 heros principaux du livre sont tres attachants et je me suis laisse rapidement m'attacher a Becker voulant meme le proteger esperant qu'il agisse de tel ou telle façon pour sa survie... bref j'avais de la misere a m'arreter de lire et j'ai ete plus que charme par ce merveilleux roman !
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Wayne posted a review at 2009-09-06 04:08:42.
(Language: English)
Dan Brown's 1998 book could easily have been called "The Encryption Code". This story has Susan Fletcher as the main character, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician, as they solve a mysterious code the National Security Agency's super computer cannot solve. In a plot like his later Da Vinci code, theres a race against time to solve the codes, along with a good dash of chase investigating. This is a good read for fans of Dan Brown, and computer geeks, with some clues that you may get before the characters twig them. I got one of the last clues 10 pages before the characters did!! A good read you could well get through in one long sitting.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-16 07:02:57.
(Language: English)
I really enjoyed this book. Puzzles and codes have always fascinated me, so this book played right into one of my interests. I actually enjoyed the background that Sidney1220 found off-outting, because of my interest in codes. There were definitely things in it that required more than a little suspension of disbelief. The mystery wasn't one of the greatest I've read, and many things were predictable, but Brown still managed to suck me in. Once the story got really rolling I had a hard time putting it down. The short chapters (some only a page or two long) about various characters in different places made the action going on across two continents feel almost simultaneous and really swept me along. I've already read The Da Vinci Code, and I'm looking forward to reading more of this author now. :)
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-14 03:07:05.
(Language: English)
Antes de estourar no mundo inteiro com "O Código Da Vinci", Dan Brown já demonstrava um talento singular como contador de histórias no seu primeiro livro, "Fortaleza Digital", lançado em 1998 nos Estados Unidos.Muitos dos ingredientes que, anos depois, fariam com que o autor fosse reconhecido como um novo mestre dos livros de ação e suspense já estavam presentes no seu romance de estréia: a narrativa rápida, a trama repleta de reviravoltas que prendem o leitor da primeira à última página e o fascÃnio exercido por códigos secretos, criptografia e enigmas misteriosos.Em "Fortaleza Digital", Brown mergulha no intrigante universo dos serviços de informação e ambienta sua história na ultra-secreta e multibilionária NSA, a Agência de Segurança Nacional americana, mais poderosa do que a CIA ou qualquer outra organização de inteligência do mundo.Quando o supercomputador da NSA, até então considerado uma arma invencÃvel para decodificar mensagens terroristas transmitidas pela Internet, se depara com um novo código que não pode ser quebrado, a agência recorre à sua mais brilhante criptógrafa, a bela matemática Susan Fletcher.Presa numa teia de segredos e mentiras, sem saber em quem confiar, Susan precisa encontrar a chave do engenhoso código para evitar o maior desastre da história da inteligência americana e para salvar a sua vida e a do homem que ama.
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Peter posted a review at 2009-07-01 06:14:44.
(Language: English)
510 pages of unebelievable badly wtitten tosh. I lost count of the number of times my mental commentary told me, "well, that just couldn't/wouldn't happen" And worse, the cliff-hanging ending where the protagonists try to decode the terrorist's message is, frankly, laughable: "The prime difference between Unranium 235 and Unranium 238"? Three, right? 238-235=3. Three is a prime number. And the prime difference between two isotopes is their different atomic weights - THAT'S what MAKES them different. Yet it takes our supposedly 170-IQ characters nearly thirty pages to break this unbreakable code. Utter rubbish. Shame; I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-07 01:27:33.
(Language: English)
I was skeptical when starting to read this book. After reading The DaVinci Code and Demons and Angels, two books I found to be very similar, I figured Digital Fortress would be more of the same. Self torture, run around the city and solve the clues. While there is plenty of running around, I was pleasantly surprised to find it quite different. It is face paced and moves much quicker than Demons and Angels. Mr. Brown doesn't insult our intelligence by implying who one of the bad guys is, but not confirming it until much later. He spills the beans in the very next chapter and then leaves you to discover how the pieces fall together and who else is involved. The story line involves code breaking and talks about how our email is securely transmitted. Very interesting stuff. Overall, worth the read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-28 04:58:05.
(Language: English)
Bought this off the shelf in a Wal-Mart in the asshole of North Carolina after the power inverter for my laptop broke just after getting stranded in that town 'cause the half-collapsed barn that was the general store I was supposed to deliver to was closed for the evening by the time I got there.Still I hung the book up in disgust, and went to look for something more interesting.If Dan Brown's grasp as Catholic theology is as accurate as his understanding of cryptography, it's no wonder the church was upset.I guess it's a decent enough read if you've got time to kill, don't know anything about cryptology (the author's understanding it so wrong, it *hurts*) and/or just can't get enough of Dan Brown mysteries. Read "The DaVinci Code" and "Angels And Demons" first though, before you get all Dan-Brown lovey; they're better books.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-25 09:21:35.
(Language: English)
The National Security Agency (NSA) had a supercomputer that could break any encrypted codes under the sun but the public was not aware of its existence. Ensei Tankado, an ex-employee, was concerned about this infringement of privacy. He supposedly developed a code which this supercomputer could not break and intended to sell this code to the highest bidder. With this, he lured the NSA into uploading this code onto the supercomputer to attempt to break it. But in reality, the so-called code is a virus designed to infect the computer and cause it to release all classified information to the public domain. The world was saved when the protagonist, Susan Fletcher, managed to decipher the code and stopped the virus. The plot in the book builds up slowly from the beginning, a little too slow for my taste, and reaches the climax towards the end when the twist in the tale is the discovery of the virus. I find the most part of the book rather bland and its technical accuracy questionable.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-17 05:58:22.
(Language: English)
When at early in the morning, David Becker finds himself going Spain for a mission, he gets as shocked as Susan Fletcher for going NSA for an urgent operation. The top most US security agency meets an unbreakable algorithm in its most advanced TRANSLTER which risks the national security and the world top missions simultaneously. The NSA is being held hostage not by the weapons but by a simple three digit code that if not inserted on time, will destroy the NSA and the top valued information its containing. Desperately, when Susan tries to find the code, she encounters some facts that send chill to her spine. The best cryptographer, being betrayed by all sides, finds herself all alone where she has to fight not only for the institute she truly believes in and the country, but for herself and for the man she is in love with. Digital Fortress has so many exhilarating twists and turns that stick you with it till you devour the last word. Mind-boggling crypto techniques, amazing tech-savvy machines and a circle of genius people is what makes Digital Fortress a must read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-28 11:33:46.
(Language: English)
Dan Brown’s book “Digital Fortress “ is…. an interesting book… but I did not enjoy it as much as I did the “The Da Vinci Code†Reading into the first few paragraphs of the book I could tell that it uses the same formula and writing style as all the other novels – fast paced, a lot of facts weaved into the story which spans only a few days with the first chapter starting with a mysterious phone call and someone being whisked away to a ‘mission’ (but then again I guess Dan Brown tested the formula with this book, this was the first novel of the series I think, it just so happens that I’ve read the others first, and thus became my point of comparison) – and so the adventure begins... The story revolves around two central characters in two different settings and their fight to save the National Security Agency’s great decoding supercomputer against an unbreakable code that if released would cripple U.S. Intelligence. Susan Fletcher head cryptographer is called to the NSA HQ on a weekend faced with the problem of an unbreakable code called ‘Digital Fortress’ which is created by an ex-NSA employee, who is found dead in Seville Spain where her fiancé David Becker - a professor of Linguistics is sent to retrieve anything that might contain the passkey – which we are lead to believe was a ring he was wearing at the time of death. ... all that techno babble piqued my curiosity and I had the fleeting urge to go surf the net and research all about the NSA, code-breaking and algorithms etc... but... um.... I got lazy.... => David’s adventure or should I say misadventures in Spain was a lot to handle. Too many unfortunate and unbelievable coincidences if you ask me!!!... there are times while reading that I wanted to skip chapters just to see if he finally got the da*n ring!!! What got me though the book (I tried to read it quickly!) was the anticipation of what will happen in the end… and unfortunately even that was not good!!! There was much hype and build up in the last chapters only to find out that it had a ‘bland’ ending!... even the ring which was the caused a series of unfortunate events and numerous murders wasn’t even part of solving the passkey!!! What started out to be very a good read turned boring by the middle part and bland at the end… boohoo…. Dan Brown fans are sure to kill me now!!!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-16 04:23:13.
(Language: English)
The whole time i was reading this,i kept thinking how it seemed remarkably like a script of an illfated"cheap hollywood"movie where the heroine runs around with perfect makeup,come fire or floods,until the end,than a novel by a decent writer.Everything about it is riddled with so many stereotypes that i found myself inching towards the barf bag : the stunningly perfect Susan,with a stratospheric level intellect(although you'd seriously come to doubt that sometimes during the story);the goofy,'lucky as the devil' whipped sod of a hero(who you sometimes wish would just cop it, out of sheer irritation);the old,sleaze ball of a boss who has a thing for his favourite-est employee(bleh.big shock);another sleaze ball of a co-worker(who ends up dead anyway, along with a slew of other characters);and oh,a big machine called the TRNSLTR...And Dear GOD!its also corny!(proposing in the face of impending doom, anyone?)It also has an epilogue-ic plot twist that will have you go "really?" not in surprise or awe,but in disgust at its absolute predictability(the dead guy happens to be the long abandoned son of the guy who commisioned to kill him- oooooh?!). Combined with the whole incredulity factor it just...Anyway not one of Dan Brown's best works.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-10 08:23:38.
(Language: English)
The National Security Agency has been working for years on a method to intercept and crack any code or encrypted message sent via E-Mail across the globe. They finally developed a machine so powerful that it can decode even the toughest messages in just a matter of minutes. The machine is dubbed TRANSLTR.The existence of TRANSLTR is threatened when a bitter, crippled Japanese programmer threatens to release an encryption method that TRANSLTR can’t crack: Digital Fortress. Digital Fortress is placed up on the web, encrypted in itself so that only those with the passcode can unlock it. The NSA learns the programmer is working with a partner as a safety measure. If he should die, the partner will publish the passcode within 24 hours.The programmer is found dead in Spain and the NSA must race the clock to obtain both passcodes before it is too late.The whole idea that keeping Digital Fortress out of the hands of the public was a life or death situation seemed a little too weighty for me. I believe the basic idea of Digital Fortress is that the encryption was constantly revolving, making it impossible for a computer to guess when the correct passcode had been entered. Anyone in the computer world knows that everything has a workaround. It may be that Digital Fortress would make TRANSLTR extinct, but necessity is the mother of invention and people would eventually figure out how to break into a file encrypted by Digital Fortress.Therefore, the book seemed a little bloody to me. People were taking the issue WAY too seriously.If you put the absurdity of the subject matter aside, I still enjoyed the book. I’m really starting to like Dan Brown’s work. I’ve also read the Da Vinci Code and both books are filled with information you may not have previously known (such as where the term “sincerely†really comes from). They were also both written in real-time. I absolutely love books written in real-time. No skipping ahead three months and losing a portion of the person’s life. No thought or detail left unattended.It was a good, dark read that I really enjoyed. I can’t wait to delve into some of Dan Brown’s other works.
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Christina posted a review at 2007-07-22 11:33:21.
(Language: English)
As usual Dan Brown's thrilling action sequences, fluid imagery, and enticing character development make for an entertaining story. However, I was... disappointed in this one. My disappointment stems purely from the fact that I know too much about the factual topics he is playing with, which crumbles his storyline and allows me to see right through it. Normally I can blur my knowledge and flow with the plot, pull myself into the story. This time, there was no chance. The second he introduced his morphing unbreakable code I knew I was not apart of the audience this book was written for, and it was all down hill from there. I do enjoy his writing style though, so I think I'll hand this book off to my grandmother (who recently learned excitedly how to turn a computer on) and pick up something a little more intellectually challenging. PS what was up with the ridiculous amount of time it took them to solve the riddle at the end? I know science and engineering majors sleep through basic chem but COME ON!!! PPS It really annoyed me that Jabba kept yelling about a numerical code at the end... Anyone of his supposed education wouldn't be phased by a linguistic code that needed to become numerical... *rolls eyes*
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Maria Magdalena posted a review at 2012-06-10 07:08:17.
(Language: English)
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Joanne posted a review at 2009-08-13 08:14:09.
(Language: English)
The plot of this story wasnt very interesting or believeable especially towards the end. Becker was my fave character as the others seemed ill-written and a bit fake. I got confused by who the caracters were and their role. It only really became a page turner towards the end, but at this point there was too much exaduration of the characters emotions and they became very thick when trying to find the solution. It was obvious to the reader before it was obvious to the charcters. The part before this was like an ill attempt at writing an action scene, like they were trying to write film directions, and the fate of the characters seemed very abrupt and didnt 'sit right'. Ive not read any other Dan Brown books but on describing this book to family they said it was very Dan Brown, so samey. Id give this book 5/10 and would only recommend it if someone wants something random to read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-21 11:10:27.
(Language: English)
This is without doubt the worst book I have ever read. Leaving aside Dan Brown's writing style, which does not in the least appeal to me, the plot is fundamentally flawed at many levels. The story mainly revolves around the NSA running some code on their new quantum computer which then proceeds to break it. Brown clearly hasn't researched any of the subject matter in the book, and it really shows. Here are a few representative plot holes: 1) The code changes with time: This is a really ridiculous thing to claim. It can only change with time when someone is running a computer program that changes it with time. Stop running the damn program, and work off whatever the source is! It's that simple. 2) The NSA try to decrypt a code, but it turns out to be a program and breaks their computer: This is just plain stupid. How did they accidently run a program, when what they meant to do was use the binary as input into another program? If their decryption program cannot deal with all possible inputs then it doesn't work, and never did. I suspect that at the NSA they regularly click on attached executable files from people they don't know that turn up in their Outlook Express inbox. 3) He confuses hacking with cryptanalysis over and over again. 4) Apparently the quantum computer they have can break all cryptosystems. Unfortunately, there are some (really really simple) systems which are provably secure in the informational theoretic sense, and can never be broken, simply because they do not contain enough information to reconstruct the message without the key. 5) Since when do we have giant quantum computers in the basement? It's all just a little off the wall, and Brown's misuse of jargon, and his poor grasp of the subject matter is torturous. Seriously, give this one a miss!
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(Language: English)
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-22 01:42:00.
(Language: English)
Ensei Tankado, um ex-funcionário da Agência de Segurança Nacional (NSA) que jura vingar-se dos Estados Unidos, desenvolve um algoritmo de encriptação inquebrável, algo considerado impossível, que caso seja publicamente utilizado inutilizará o computador superpotente da NSA, Transltr, na decodificação de mensagens. A este algoritmo dá o nome de Fortaleza Digital.Tankado conta com a ajuda de North Dakota, pessoa responsável por tornar o Fortaleza Digital público caso Tankado morra sem cumprir seu objectivo. Tankado sofre uma morte misteriosa, supostamente causada por um ataque cardiaco. Antes de morrer, Tankado tenta chamar a atenção das muitas pessoas que passavam ao seu redor numa praça publica da Espanha para o anel que trazia na sua mão esquerda, anel esse que teria gravado o código de desencriptação do Fortaleza Digital.Trevor Strathmore, vice-director da NSA, convida David Becker para ir a Espanha em busca do anel e juntamente com a criptóloga Susan Fletcher, noiva de Becker, tenta evitar a disseminação do Fortaleza Digital. Sem saber em quem confiar, Susan e David, separados, tentam encontrar a solução para evitar o que poderia ser o maior desastre da História da Segurança de Informações norte-americana.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-28 12:30:08.
(Language: English)
never a fan of Dan Brown until i read this book, perhaps just one book still doesn't change that (i slept off watching the movie ' Da Vinci Code'..hahah). Totally can understand wht the story is all abt perhaps of my background knowledge... wasnt tht intrigued of wanting to know the end, but the story line was all right. Suggested by a friend who thinks i dont read good books.. (i dont take immature judgemental comments seriously frm someone who thinks he or she knows the universe). Overall, i learn a thing or two from the book, add on to what i already know before i read one and can't wait to see who would play the lead actors if this book becomes a film.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-10 08:14:46.
(Language: English)
Programming, cryptography, network security - if you happen to have any idea what these(or plan to have at some later point in time), this book is NOT FOR YOU. Stay away from this book, as far as possible - because the author's idea about these words are probably limited to that provided by a standard dictionary. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and if you add a little Hollywood to it - the results can be detrimental. He somehow overheard a few drunk college grads at some bar talking about cryptography after their first class - and went home and saw a late night cheap spy thriller. Next morning when he woke up, he had started writing the most pathetic book I have read in recent times.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-15 01:01:14.
(Language: English)
This book is defintiely apparent as Brown's freshmen attempt at writing a novel, as no more apparent than some clear points of lazy character and plot development in the book (ala David Becker in Seville magically sumbling upon Meagan). However, it drew me into the story like no other author has done in quite a while, and I can not wait to read his next few attempts! It's definitley apparent through some sloppy pacing and character development that this book is Brown's freshmen attempt at a major novel, but for his first, it's got me really excited to see what his other books have lying in waiting. Although the plot was sometimes predictable and in need of a few forgiving moments of reason (ala Becker on the chase on Seville) the book none the less managed to capture me and lure me deeper into the story and ficitious lives of those invovled, that I just simply couldn't put it down. This book is defintiely apparent as Brown's freshmen attempt at writing a novel, as no more apparent than some clear points of lazy character and plot development in the book (ala David Becker in Seville magically sumbling upon Meagan). However, it drew me into the story like no other author has done in quite a while, and I can not wait to read his next few attempts!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-10 07:31:43.
(Language: English)
An extremely boring book I'm reading, but I just have to... It's unrealistic, contains mathematically flawed theory supporting what the story is about, it's fun to read something about codebreaking written by a noob for a few minutes and then get back to the real world where the laws of information theory still apply. In the real world a code is unbreakable because it's too complex to break, not because it's impossible to break, meaning it's unlikely to be broken but still possible. Unfortunately the book isn't about a complex problem, it's about an impossible problem, which is where Dan Brown's crackpot science logic starts. It would have been cooler if it were about some high complexity problem that has to be solved or the world will come to an end by nuclear self destruction because some bastards created selfdetonating atom bombs with sophisticated codes, but instead it's about an algorithm that can't exist. Maybe fiction just isn't my thing...
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-26 01:57:06.
(Language: English)
This crisp and pungent first thriller by Dan Brown, who teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, will delight all sorts of readers--especially anyone who knows anything about computers and encryption software such as PGP (for Pretty Good Privacy). "To make their charade of incompetence complete," Brown writes, "the NSA [National Security Agency, but so secret that it's also known as No Such Agency] lobbied fiercely against all new encryption software, insisting it crippled them and made it impossible for lawmakers to catch and prosecute the criminals. Civil rights groups cried foul, insisting the NSA shouldn't be reading their mail anyway. Encryption software kept rolling off the presses. The NSA had lost the battle--exactly as it had planned." In Digital Fortress, the NSA's secret weapon is a giant, multibillion-dollar computer called TRANSLTR, which can crack any code in seconds. The trouble starts when a renegade scientist comes up with an unbreakable code, Digital Fortress, and then threatens to give it away on the Internet. Along with the techno-babble, there are some very interesting human characters, including a heroic anguage teacher-turned-spy.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-17 10:17:18.
(Language: English)
Wow, where to begin. This is the second Dan Brown book I've read and I'm guessing it'll likely be the last. To begin, if you plan on reading this book, forget suspending your disbelief, rather tie up your disbelief, take it out back and shoot it lest it resurface while you're reading the book. Yes, this book contains an impressive amount of plot holes, factual errors, non-existent technology, etc. The NSA (which is in fact bigger than the CIA and the FBI) is portrayed as an organization that has no more than perhaps 20 employees, none of which come in on weekends. 170 IQ employees that act as if they had a 70 IQ. 12 gauge printer cable? The NSA has full-time employees that work as translators -- they don't get temp college professors to read Chinese/Japanese. Programmers/Mathematicians DO NOT MAKE an exorbitant amount of money working for the NSA. They are still subject to the federal payscale. X-eleven, not 'X11'? Brute force code-breaking as the primary decryption method????? VSLI, not VLSI??? Tracer programs that don't have to be executed, but act on their own? Ugh. I can overlook these things if it were well written around a taut storyline. Dan Brown doesn't include a preface to the book that espoused the accuracy of the facts as he does in Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code. So you have to take it as FICTION and not non-fiction. He does say that he corresponded with former NSA employees in writing this book. Having a bit of experience in the industry, I'd say that either Dan Brown had no such correspondences with former employees, they fed him misinformation deliberately, or Dan Brown was told the basis of his entire book made no sense by these former employees, so he decided to throw all their suggestions in the trash so he could write this book. Regardless, the ultimate downfall of this book is BAD WRITING. The characters are flat and annoying. Their actions are contradictory to their personalities -- just to move the 'plot' along. I think Dan Brown has a Word-a-Day calendar and he uses that new vocabulary word several times in the 10-15 pages of writing he produces that day. Words like 'torrent', 'andalusian', etc are used several times in a 3 'chapter' span and then never again throughout the book. Most annoying, Dan Brown apparently never learned that similes are well and good and get the point across, but should not be used often as they are extremely annoying. Towards the end of the book all these sentences are used in 2 pages -- no joke. "The commander rose through the trap door LIKE Lazarus back from the dead." "Freon was flowing downward through the smoldering TRANSLTR LIKE oxygenated blood." "Susan was standing before him, damp and tousled, in his blazer. She looked LIKE a freshman coed who'd been caught in the rain. He felt LIKE the senior who'd lent her his varsity sweater." [nice double simile, huh? :)] "Her gaze was LIKE ice -- the softness was gone. Susan Fletcher stood rigid LIKE an immovable statue." [another one] "The puddle of blood beneath Hale's body had spread across the carpet LIKE an oil spill." Yes, the writing is THAT groan-inducingly bad. These two classics in the book make me laugh every time I think of them --"Like in a cheap hollywood movie, the lights went out in the bathroom just as she heard the scream." and "Any more interesting than last night and I'll never walk again." Ultimately, I did finish the book -- one reason I gave it 2 stars instead of one. Partly because I hate leaving a book half read, but more so to see how much more amusing it would become to me. There's a good premise in the book, but a better writer was needed to coax it out. Dan Brown is not that writer.
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