Customer Reviews
Same old, same old - By: El Loro, 08 Nov 2008 
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 & a TV movie about the seventies. It certainly isn't the Seville I've been visiting for thirty years.
Still, bad research & bad writing haven't stopped people buying his books so far...
Good Dan Brown Thriller - By: chuckles, 22 Oct 2008 
This is a typical good Dan Brown thriller, as with alll his novels this follows his typical pattern & 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 & Demons, but still a good read.
Drivel - By: M. P. J. Kochen, 07 Sep 2008 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 actuallly 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 actuallly worth reading. It took me alll of 10 seconds to realize that ndakota was an anagram of tankado & anybody with a smidgen of high school physics knows that uranium has two major isotopes, U235 & U238. This makes me smarter than alll 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 totallly unneccessary & had no function in furthering the story.
2) The "Mary Poppins" nature of his heroes (practicallly 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 & even then I regretted having put it in my suitcase.
Best book i've ever read! - By: Miles Saunders, 31 Aug 2008 
This was one the best books i've ever read. I could not put it down! Highly recommended.
Cryptography held hostage by unbreakable code. - By: pointone, 31 Jul 2008 Digital Fortress
This is Dan Brown's first novel & sets the framework for his mature works, Da Vinci Code etc.
One Saturday brilliant head code breaker Susan Fletcher is callled 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 & 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.
