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Review title: Insipid book. Waste of time
Product review: Dan Brown's Digital Fortress is an unfortunate attempt at throwing together a quick and dirty thriller novel. It seems as if throughout the novel he uses tidbits of information gathered off a single website regarding internet and computer security systems. Given the amount of research that went into THE DA VINCI CODE (which borrowed in part from ANGELS AND DEMONS), the "research" in this book is embarrassing. Grabbing snippets of geekspeak and hacker terms and molding it to a weak plot did not make the book a techo-thriller. It made it look rather confused and disjointed. The technical inaccuracies (confabulations) aside (the book was full of them), the lack of proper character development as well as the choppy flow of the action in the book made me think this was Dan Brown's first attempt at writing. What went wrong, Dan?
