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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A good twist but the women in the book are written horribly.
Essentially a poorly-written [author:Michael Chrichton] novel. He could have been better aware of the technology he wrote about.
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Las wel lekker weg, maar niet heel erg sterk tbh. Zessenenhalfje, dus.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
adventurous
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emotional
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This was my first Dan Brown novel and quite possibly my only Dan Brown novel. I’ve seen the movie adaptation of the Da Vinci Code and thought I’d give one of his other novels a try before reading something I’ve already seen as a movie. Unfortunately, there are plot continuity issues (sometimes in the same chapter), the shortness of the chapters keeps you turning pages but at points it becomes annoying. It’s the book version of cutting to commercial just when things get interesting in the chapter. Or chapters are needlessly split up. Why? It was three pages and then continues in the next chapter (of three more pages). Doesn’t impact the story other than it cheapens the book with a gimmicky editing style.
The real problem for me was the aforementioned continuity issues. Something couldn’t be done in one chapter which (with no explanation) can be done in a following chapter as if by magic. More detrimental is the crux of the plot in that the NSA or any national intelligence agency in the world would not only keep all of nation’s secrets and sensitive information in a single data repository but would then connect the repository to the internet for it to be attacked non stop by anyone with half a brain, internet and a working computer. That’s where the story completely lost me as comedically unrealistic and stopped being a thriller and more of “how much worse can this get — I need to know” read. It didn’t disappoint in the “getting worse” aspect. The villain had been telegraphed for many many chapters and it started to feel like one of those b movie horror shows. “No! Don’t go in the basement! Just get in the car and leave!” But noooo… you went the basement. Terrible things happen… predictable and not creatively imaginative. I kept expecting a twist and I guess the twist was that there wasn’t one?
I can’t give it one star as I have definitely read books far worse than this but the guy that created the Da Vinci Code story surely can do better than what is Digital Fortress.
The real problem for me was the aforementioned continuity issues. Something couldn’t be done in one chapter which (with no explanation) can be done in a following chapter as if by magic. More detrimental is the crux of the plot in that the NSA or any national intelligence agency in the world would not only keep all of nation’s secrets and sensitive information in a single data repository but would then connect the repository to the internet for it to be attacked non stop by anyone with half a brain, internet and a working computer. That’s where the story completely lost me as comedically unrealistic and stopped being a thriller and more of “how much worse can this get — I need to know” read. It didn’t disappoint in the “getting worse” aspect. The villain had been telegraphed for many many chapters and it started to feel like one of those b movie horror shows. “No! Don’t go in the basement! Just get in the car and leave!” But noooo… you went the basement. Terrible things happen… predictable and not creatively imaginative. I kept expecting a twist and I guess the twist was that there wasn’t one?
I can’t give it one star as I have definitely read books far worse than this but the guy that created the Da Vinci Code story surely can do better than what is Digital Fortress.
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced