By Dan Brown
The good bad and the ugly. This book meets the latter two criterion. Starts off with two people in a bed... Obviously Brown believes the suspense in the story wont pull the readers in so he tries sex to sell his book. By all means people would have indeed bought the book for no reason other than that it was well... written by Dan Brown. No holy grail, no controversy, hence it competes on the same level with other suspense thriller's novels.
The whole Japanese element of the story is understandable with the movies like Tokyo Drift being the in trend. If you want to enjoy this book, dont expect anything. Go in with a blank (uncritical) mind and you'll like it.
The story revolves around the hard-to-live-up-to character Susan Fletcher, who is a par brilliant sex bomb with a 170 IQ. David Becker is however a character that most female's hearts will reach out to. As Susan put it .. he's perfect and his only flaw is that he insists on picking up the cheque everytime. I guess she should have just said He's Perfect. Fullstop.
The book does tend to arouse a very big curiosity about the fundamental workings of crptography, and the mystifying (fictional) world of an expert decoder, along the lines of A beautiful mind minus the schizo factor. The whole Pearl Harbour episode is brought to light in a slightly unrealistic form of Ensei Tankado.
Average book with a lot of sentimental value attached, as a very dear person gifted this book to me. I wont rate with prejudice however.
3.5 Stars [***--]
Other Reviews: CurledUp, WAP, NetSec, PorkRind
The good bad and the ugly. This book meets the latter two criterion. Starts off with two people in a bed... Obviously Brown believes the suspense in the story wont pull the readers in so he tries sex to sell his book. By all means people would have indeed bought the book for no reason other than that it was well... written by Dan Brown. No holy grail, no controversy, hence it competes on the same level with other suspense thriller's novels.
The whole Japanese element of the story is understandable with the movies like Tokyo Drift being the in trend. If you want to enjoy this book, dont expect anything. Go in with a blank (uncritical) mind and you'll like it.The story revolves around the hard-to-live-up-to character Susan Fletcher, who is a par brilliant sex bomb with a 170 IQ. David Becker is however a character that most female's hearts will reach out to. As Susan put it .. he's perfect and his only flaw is that he insists on picking up the cheque everytime. I guess she should have just said He's Perfect. Fullstop.
The book does tend to arouse a very big curiosity about the fundamental workings of crptography, and the mystifying (fictional) world of an expert decoder, along the lines of A beautiful mind minus the schizo factor. The whole Pearl Harbour episode is brought to light in a slightly unrealistic form of Ensei Tankado.
Average book with a lot of sentimental value attached, as a very dear person gifted this book to me. I wont rate with prejudice however.
3.5 Stars [***--]
Other Reviews: CurledUp, WAP, NetSec, PorkRind
