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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
Two stars is rather generous - sorry Mr Brown, I'm a big fan of some of your other novels but this one was clearly not from the same gene pool.
The main problem with this book is that the characters are super spies who work all day and all night making and breaking codes, they are cryptography geniuses and they have a big bloody super computer in a secret underground bunker (long story short: they know how to break codes, yeah?)
BUT - there's a bad guy that's about to destroy them all, or the universe, or something and there's a clue discovered on page 5 (or there abouts) and the good guys spend the ENTIRE book trying to figure out the clue so they can discover the identity of the bad guy and his accomplice and put an end to his evil plans and save the cheerleader and actually anyone who can read above a third grade level can take a second and look at the clue and see exactly what it means.
I'm not usually one to nit pick and yell "Plot Hole!" but there you have it. Seriously.
The main problem with this book is that the characters are super spies who work all day and all night making and breaking codes, they are cryptography geniuses and they have a big bloody super computer in a secret underground bunker (long story short: they know how to break codes, yeah?)
BUT - there's a bad guy that's about to destroy them all, or the universe, or something and there's a clue discovered on page 5 (or there abouts) and the good guys spend the ENTIRE book trying to figure out the clue so they can discover the identity of the bad guy and his accomplice and put an end to his evil plans and save the cheerleader and actually anyone who can read above a third grade level can take a second and look at the clue and see exactly what it means.
I'm not usually one to nit pick and yell "Plot Hole!" but there you have it. Seriously.
Liked this one better than any of Brown's other books.
I still enjoyed this, but I think it's arguably one of the weakest, to date, from Brown. He tries to deploy his usual tricks in a somewhat different setting, but the various elements don't slot together as smoothly as they should. Still an easy read, and enjoyable enough, but it feels like a much lesser work in comparison to his better "blockbuster" reads.
A real and exciting page turner, I soo love this book that YOU HAVE TO FINISH once started!
Fantastico, cominciato e finito nello stesso pomeriggio, non é un classico ovviamente, ma chi se ne importa?
Fantastico, cominciato e finito nello stesso pomeriggio, non é un classico ovviamente, ma chi se ne importa?
This is the first Dan Brown book I've read, and one of the first true thrillers I've read. For the most part, I loved the story. It is very fast-paced, and the reader never knows whom to trust. The only criticism I have is that the pulse-pounding events of the very end were obvious, IMO. Granted this is a techno-thriller that I am reading fifteen years after it was published, so back in 2004, the events might not have been as obvious.
This one piqued my inner geek and I was really into the coding and encryption as I was learning about it in class at the time.
Written in typical Dan Brown style, I could not put this book down, and read it within 24 hours. Loved it
