Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
After reading the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, I knew Dan Brown was able to write exciting books, thrilling books, books that dragged you into the story and didn't let go. But all that didn't prepare me for Digital Fortress. Wow. Reading books usually takes some time for me, I am not a fast reader, but I finished this one in a few hours, spread out over 3 days. I couldn't stop reading. Of course, the topic of this book is for me even more interesting as the church-bashing of the Da Vinci Code. Technology has my interest, quite a lot of course. So for me stories like this come closer to my own little private world than the happenings inside the Catholic church. There is a good chance that for others, it is exactly opposite. Still, there were also small let-downs. Certain “riddles”, mysteries, that are in this book were too transparent. The identity of the mysterious North Dakota / NDAKOTA for instance. The moment I read it, I knew it. The main characters in the book take more than half of the book to find that out. The pass-key that they need near the end of the book: The main characters take about 6 or 7 pages to figure this out. It took me two. After two pages, the information needed to solve the riddle was already given. But there were also big surprises. The one that I definitely did not expect was even in the epilogue. Truly something I did not expect. The rest of the book is typical Dan Brown. A lot of tension, a lot of happenings. Short chapters. The same writing style as the other books. Again Brown proves to be a great writer. I have not yet read Deception Point, so that will definitely be one to read.September 21, 2006 - tags: books
Comments
grkvlt: really? i hated this book. maybe because i already know a fair bit about cryptography, the first few chapters about the nsa and it’s code-breaking exploits were just so far from even plausible that i had to stop reading!the general premise of the cipher the plot revolves around is ridiculous, in fact it is obvious dan brown knows nothing about computers, viruses, cryptography or mathematics. for a more in-depth debunking of the plot-holes in digital fortress, i found this review covers most points better than i could.
the point that authors who write about smart characters is well made – you need to be intelligent yourself to get away with it, at least if you want similarly knowledgable people to enjoy reading your book… if you want to read books about this sort of thing, why not try cryptonomicon by neal stephenson, which is excellent. in fact, most of his books are well worth reading, particularly his three volume baroque cycle set in 1650-1750 england.
ADK.
September 24, 2006
left: My knowledge of cryptography is very limited, but even with my limited knowledge, of course I noticed that this book is clearly fiction. If we were to not read any books where the facts were incorrect, then sci-fi, cyberpunk and such would not be readable anymore. 
I will check into cryptonomicon, thanks for the tip.
September 24, 2006
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