
T. wrote on 1/28/2007...
6 member(s) found this review helpful.
Excellent thriller! I loved the twists and turns--a real page turner!
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a bit different from Dan Brown's other books but of a similar theme. It is exciting and suspenseful, and I really enjoyed it.

Susan F. (
nolefan) wrote on 7/23/2007...
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very interesting book that makes you think. Dan Brown really knows how to scare you!
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
Much better than my first Dan Brown read (DaVinci Code)! Writing is decent, there is a fast moving plot with several twists throughout.

Lindsay C. (
Lindsay) wrote on 5/13/2007...
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
woo hoo, what a page turner! Fast paced and keept me guessing all the way through. I have recomended this book to many readers!

Scott H. (
cinequip) wrote on 9/3/2007...
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
A surprisingly good thriller. My first Dan Brown read, and now I want to reader The Da Vinci Code. My dughter gave me the book, and at first I was little interested, due to the "Digital" word in the title. Highly recommended.

Althea M. (
althea) wrote on 9/15/2008...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
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 novels, I figured I'd give it a go.
Well, it was dumb.
You one thing that always annoys me? When an author goes out of his way to tell you that his heroes are gorgeous, fit/muscular, and at a genius-level of intellectual brilliance - but then they don't do anything to prove it.
Another thing that annoys me? Boring, unresearched stereotypes. In this book, it's the people of Spain (in general), and punk rockers. The punks were so bad I was actually laughing. It was worse than sitcoms from the 80's where it was trendy to have an episode featuring those stupid, dangerous, drug-using punks for a while. Seriously.
Oh, and there's nothing about codes or security in it that the average Internet user or person who read a book on codes as a kid doesn't know. If you have no idea what PGP is AT ALL, go for it.
There's also a bunch of total crapola about how the government NEEDS to be able to read everyone's e-mail to defeat all the insidious plots against us, and snide comments about how silly it is that housewives are worried about the government stealing their top-secret recipes. And references to civil rights activists as "fanatics." Rather offensive, really.
To give it its fair due, the denouement was fairly exciting.
But if you're interested in finding out about computer security, read Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon." Now that's a good book.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
I actually enjoyed this more than the DaVinci Code. Highly recommended for suspense fans.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was a good book, but I have actually read better. I did not expect a few of the turns, though.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Great Read, The action was flowing at a steady rate, All happing in one day. And there was a little twist at the end which was rather unique.