Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Digital Fortress |
| author | Dan Brown |
| ISBN-10 | 0-312-99542-3 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-312-99542-3 |
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| date | 2007-Mar-19 |
Susan Fletcher, a cryptography specialist with the NSA, had planned a trip for the weekend with David. But it all comes different. First David is sent onto a mysterious mission, and later her boss calls her in for an emergency.
As usual, the whole story plays in a timeframe of only 24 hours, but Dan Brown has enough twists and turns up his sleeve to make it a very eventful 24 hours, right from the first page through to the last one. Even though Digital Fortress is not exactly as highly capturing as some of his other books, it still makes for a fine read. It also makes you wonder how much spying power big organizations and countries really do have.
Some small mistakes in the book, like the mixup of the terms bit and byte, as well as a mistake in some code are tiny glitches. But for somebody who is used to the Japanese language and Japanese names, the Japanese sounding but definitely non-Japanese name Dan Brown chose for one main character becomes a bit annoying while reading. If you don't speak Japanese, you probably won't notice and mind.
