Another Brown yawner. This guy gets paid by the word -- why else would a room full of super geniuses take 12 pages to solve a riddle, 6 of which are after the answer is obvious?
It was good, wasn't his best, but I definitely liked it. There were parts that were a little slow, but it ended up picking up at the end. I could not put it down or feel like I could read fast enough to see how things played out in the end. There were parts that got too techie for me and I had to sk...
It's a pretty good thriller, but once you've read one of Dan Brown's, you've read them all. Moreover, as kind of a specialist in cryptography and computer science, it's hard to not laugh at some of the ridiculous stuff Brown tells us in this story (rotating cleartext, X11-filters, FTP packet collect...
This was not one of Dan Brown's best work. I can really pinpoint why exactly, just that it didn't compare to his other books. I might have been expecting too much. It was still ok though.
Picked this off my shelf yesterday morning, 'cause I was kind of in the mood for a dumb, light thriller. And I had recently read a review where someone had said that they had "learned a lot" about Internet privacy and cryptography from the book. So, even though I hadn't really liked Brown's 2 other ...
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