all those who have read digital fortress by Dan Brown-i need your comments or reviews!?

Question

recently i read dan browns digital fortress.
a nice book but i was disappointed with dan brown because he has used the same way of making his story in which the male and female protagonist are in love and get involved in the same search(as in angels and demons ,da vinci and digital fortress)
but i would like to read your comments on the book.how did you find the book?better or best?
please elaborate on whatever u felt while reading the buk -on the story ,characters etc.

Answer 1

Digital Fortress is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read. As you've already discovered, Dan Brown's books have a definite formula. The main character is always the same Mary Sue, and his love interest is always the same character as well--a 1-dimensional female whose description is 99% aesthetic, but she's also clever. Consequently, the books read pretty much as if written from the perspective of an 8th grade D&D nerd.

What really makes Digital Fortress so awful though, is the absolutely ludicrous faux computer science. The NSA's cryptographers do not sit in a college style computer lab trying to sneak each others passwords, nor do they have a huge video wall that shows a graphical depiction of how far hackers have breached their security measures (as if the USA's most private national secrets would be on a computer hooked to the internet... ugh). Ditto for the stupid description of the super code-breaking computer, which sounds remarkably like the Enterprise Warp Core.

All in all, a real piece of garbage.

Answer 2

Actually im a big fan of Dan Brown and i found Digital Fortress very interesting. All these things about breaking codes etc is so interesting if you have some intelligence(lol). But if you try to compare to Da Vinci Code then obviously you'll be disappointed. And considering this was his first book then you must give the guy credit.
In order of preference:
(1) Da Vinci Code
(2) Angels And Demons
(3) Digital Fortress
(4) Deception Point

And i really cant wait for his next book.

Answer 3

This crisp and pungent first thriller by Dan Brown, who teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, will delight all sorts of readers--especially anyone who knows anything about computers and encryption software such as PGP (for Pretty Good Privacy). "To make their charade of incompetence complete," Brown writes, "the NSA [National Security Agency, but so secret that it's also known as No Such Agency] lobbied fiercely against all new encryption software, insisting it crippled them and made it impossible for lawmakers to catch and prosecute the criminals. Civil rights groups cried foul, insisting the NSA shouldn't be reading their mail anyway. Encryption software kept rolling off the presses. The NSA had lost the battle--exactly as it had planned." In Digital Fortress, the NSA's secret weapon is a giant, multibillion-dollar computer called TRANSLTR, which can crack any code in seconds. The trouble starts when a renegade scientist comes up with an unbreakable code, Digital Fortress, and then threatens to give it away on the Internet. Along with the techno-babble, there are some very interesting human characters, including a heroic anguage teacher-turned-spy.

Answer 4

I've read 4 books by Dan Brown, they're good but all of them have pretty much the same plot. If you have already read "The Da Vinci Code" (or seen the movie) then read Angels & Demons otherwise read Digital Fortress.

Answer 5

Digital Fortress, It's been so long ago that I read that book, i'm not sure if I really remeber but I will give it a try.

I enjoyed the book, not as much as The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons, but I loved the thought provoked in the book. I also read it along the time that we were all debating the wire tapping issue.

All in all it was a good read, but not near as good as his other books.

Answer 6

You have to remember this was Dans first book. He was still a teacher at Phillips Academy in Exeter NH at the time. The reason he wrote the book was one of his students emailed another with the words 'the bomb and the president' in the same sentence. A few days later 2 guys with ear plugs and dark suits show up on campus to 'look up' the 2 kids. I personally thought the book was interesting letting us know all this Internet stuff isn't so autonomous as you would like to think. Big brother really does live.

Answer 7

I don't mean to be rude or snobby but so many great books have been written in the history of human civilisation that I think life is too short to read Dan Brown's books.
I think you have already identified the formulaic nature of his books.

Answer 8

I didn't find it as interesting as the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

And I hate to break it to manneke, but most authors find their own formula to write within. Read any one particular author for a while and you'll find it.