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Digital Fortress: A Thriller
 

Digital Fortress

by Dan Brown

In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It's an Internet user's spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more ... (read more)

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Amazon Reviews (5)
 

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Liked It

1 of 1 members found this review helpful.
Anupam J
  • Rated 5 stars

“Yet another stunner from Dan Brown…..Pure Genius….Unputdownable”

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Didn’t Like It

2 of 3 members found this review helpful.
Sasha S
  • Rated 1 stars

“This book is very poorly researched, poorly executed, and is not worth the cost at all. The main issue is that all the technical information is not just wrong, not just unbelievable, but downright preposterous. I hate to say this, but Dan Brown doesn't seem to know anything about mathematics... which is fine, but if he wants to write a book that so heavily relies on math, he should at least do the minimum research.

If you add a bit to a password, that doubles the number of entries...”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.424051 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 2.933333 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Harvey Booth

    harvey booth said:

    “I think it is rubbish.”

    posted Saturday, June 21 2008
  • mcaldwell

    mcaldwell said:

    “I wasn't able to finish this book; it was quite painful to read. Sometimes I feel like Dan Brown's aptitude for writing is on the level of the average 12-year old.”

    posted Wednesday, June 18 2008
  • Lindsay

    lindsay said:

    “I don't remember the what the concept of the book is because I read it a long time ago and did not like it. I think this was the author's first book and it showed. If it wasn't, he must have been in a hurry to get it finished and the book suffered as a result. I liked his other books, but this one was a big disappointment.”

    posted Tuesday, June 17 2008
  • K@rthik R

    k@rthik r said:

    “wats d concept of tis buk??”

    posted Tuesday, June 17 2008
  • Purav Master

    purav master said:

    “The story is written very loosely and it fails to glue the reader, the way Da Vinci Code or Angels & Demons did. There are many technical errors in the book. It seems that the author did not do as much research for this one as he did for his other books.

    And yup, i agree with ran that you can predict the antigonist. And all his stories have the same structure. A hitman hired by the antigonist who wants to kills the protagonist who is running here and there in search of something. The same plot bores the reader. You cannot read more than two Dan Brown books in succesion.”

    posted Saturday, May 24 2008
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