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Digital Fortress (CD) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Brown
Creator: Bruce Sabath
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  321 reviews
Sales Rank: 64068
Format: Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 1
ISBN: 0752868926
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780752868929
ASIN: 0752868926
Publication Date: September 9, 2004
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Sealed and New. Case may be cracked but goods inside as new. In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.
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 Same old, same old November 8, 2008
El Loro (London, England)
Digital Fortress is just what you'd expect from Dan Brown, with one difference.
He continues to follow the join-the-dots RL Stine / Goosebumps school of writing, with short punchy paragraphs in short punchy chapters, each ending in a minor cliffhanger.
However, where he did teeny bit of research for the Da Vinci Code, he seems to have done almost none for this book. His version of Seville, for example, is a mixture of 19th century Mexico and a TV movie about the seventies. It certainly isn't the Seville I've been visiting for thirty years.
Still, bad research and bad writing haven't stopped people buying his books so far...
 Good Dan Brown Thriller October 22, 2008
chuckles (Netherlands)
This is a typical good Dan Brown thriller, as with all his novels this follows his typical pattern and syle. This one however is not based on history as some of his others, but has a much more modern computer based theme, although cryptography based of course! Not as good as Angels and Demons, but still a good read.
Drivel September 7, 2008
M. P. J. Kochen (The Netherlands)
The one redeeming feature of this book is probably that it made Mr. Brown enough money to pay for some airline tickets so he could actually visit the places he wants to write about. Other than that, this one should have been printed on toilet paper. That way it would at least have served a useful purpose.
Mr. Brown shows he understands the craft of writing books but that is not the same as saying this one is actually worth reading. It took me all of 10 seconds to realize that ndakota was an anagram of tankado and anybody with a smidgen of high school physics knows that uranium has two major isotopes, U235 and U238. This makes me smarter than all the geeks in the NSA crypto department if we were to believe Mr. Brown. Some other things that bothered me were:
1)The murders in the book were totally unneccessary and had no function in furthering the story.
2) The "Mary Poppins" nature of his heroes (practically perfect in every way).
3) The severe lack of realism.
Steer away from this one people. I read it while I was on holiday baking in the South of France with nothing better to do and even then I regretted having put it in my suitcase.
 Best book i've ever read! August 31, 2008
Miles Saunders
This was one the best books i've ever read. I could not put it down! Highly recommended.
Cryptography held hostage by unbreakable code. July 31, 2008
pointone (Bournemouth UK)
Digital Fortress
This is Dan Brown's first novel and sets the framework for his mature works, Da Vinci Code etc.
One Saturday brilliant head code breaker Susan Fletcher is called in to work at America's ultimate security code breaking establishment by legendary boss Strathmore. She discovers their top secret three million processor 120 foot high super computer had been stuck for fifteens hours trying to break a code.
The action at the crypto centre accelerates as one disaster follows another and suspicion succeeds suspicion in a real page turning read.
At the same time her boy friend David Becker was flown off to Spain to trace a missing ring, an essential sub plot with fine pace but there are unfortunately too many coincidences for it to be convincing rather than fun.
Essential reading for Dan Brown fans.
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