Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
After reading The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown, I was looking forward to reading Digital Fortress. Although The DaVici Code is a work of fiction, I found it refreshing and interesting...something different. I was hoping to find some of the same qualities in Digital Fortress. Digital Fortress is a pretty quick read. There isn't a lot in the book which forces you to read a bit slower for comprehension. What disappointed me most, however, was the predictiability of the book. For those of you who haven't read the book and want to read it, don't read anymore of this blog. The main "gotcha" in the book is the fact that the head of the security group was tricked into letting a "cryptographical code" past the virus checker so they could try to decrypt it. However, the cryptographical code was really a virus itself. Also, you have a University professor pitted against a world-renouned assassin and, of course, the professor ends up killing the assasin. There were few surprises in this book. It held my interest because of the topic, but it didn't impress me due to the lack of originality.
