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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