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Jun 22 '08
Pros: Interesting plot
Cons: Some slow spots. Could have been more suspenseful. Characters not developed enough.
Summary: After really enjoying Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, I was interested in checking out the few other books that Dan Brown had written. I picked up Digital ...
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Sep 04 '07
Pros: You get a lot of information about NSA and encryption
Cons: The story drags at a certain places
Summary: Digital Fortress is a good book. Though, not as good The Da Vinci Code nor Angels and Demons. The story revolves around the NSA( National Security Agency). The finest decrypting machine in the NSA has not yet decoded a certain message. The NSA fears that ...
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Mar 16 '07
Pros: timely social issues: terrorism vs. right to privacy, the government's right to read your email
Cons: enough action to challenge James Bond, unnecessary romance
Summary: Dan Brown can tell a good story, as evidenced by his wildly popular "Da Vinci Code." This little mass market paperback, however, is something altogether different. Here Brown wraps his brainy plot around developments at the National Security Agency ...
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Feb 04 '07
Pros: Great techno-thriller. The story has a lot of twists.
Cons: Needs a lot of time reading it.
Summary: Reading fiction books are quite entertaining especially if you have enough patience reading a thick book. When a lot of novels with a good plot reach the market, it is not a bad thing to read a novel that stimulates our minds and capture our imagination. ...
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Sep 17 '05
Pros: Good writing and good pace.
Cons: Repeated plot, not too much intrigue
Summary: Introduction Dan Brown is the flavour of today. The success of Da Vinci Code has renewed interested in Dan Brown's other creations. Although, Da Vinci Code happens to be his most successful book, I liked Angels and Demons to be slightly better ...
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Apr 14 '05
Pros: A well - paced, reasonably well - written affair.
Cons: Implausible, occasionally repetitive, poor ending.
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Da Vinci Code became the book which everyone in the world had read at least twice, and Dan Brown was a world-famous author, there was this. Digital Fortress was his first novel, although having jumped about ...
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Apr 08 '05
Pros: Exciting, action-packed, and thought-provoking
Cons: Takes a while for the psychological thriller part to really kick in
Summary: A hot topic in the U.S., especially in the past few years, has been whether being protected by the government is worth giving up some of your freedoms. That question is raised in thrilling fashion thanks to Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. The ...
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Jul 05 '04
Pros: fast moving, good characters, good twists
Cons: jarring changes in which part of the story you're following
Summary: The NSA has a problem. A former employee, Ensei Tankado, has created a code called Digital Fortress that is unbreakable by the agency's two billion dollar supercomputer, TRANSLTR. No code had lasted more than six hours inside the beast, ...
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May 21 '00
Pros: thinking, patterns, dynamics, fun
Cons: none
Summary: Although "The Fort" (Fort Meade, home of the legendary and most secretive National Security Agency) seems to be at the thematic center of this book, the author, a member of the high-IQ Mensa society, is at least as much interested in humanizing...
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