Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

Finished reading Dan Brown's Digital Fortress over the weekend. Pretty interesting and a racy read, but not as good as The Da Vinci Code. The book concentrated on one part of what makes NSA so formidable. Code breaking using massive brute force. What was not talked about was code breaking using cryptanalysis which is potentially even more useful in breaking most codes.

From reading both these books a pattern of his characters appears. The female protagonist will be beautiful and very intelligent with lots of clout in her profession. The male protagonist will be a very good professor of some liberal art subject. The evil characters do whatever they are doing because of their deep faith in their country or religion. It makes for an interesting read however, so no complains although I feel his characters lack depth.

Another mark of his books are the length of the chapters. Very small.

Today I bought Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, so now I have all four books. Once I'm through reading this one and Deception Point I'm going to decide which one is the best.