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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
As someone who builds software for a living, I found "Digital Fortress" almost insultingly ignorant about its subject matter. I could have gotten past that if the writing had been of a Robertson Davies calibre, but sadly, no.
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Heh. One of the reasons I felt like throwing The Da Vinci Code against the wall was that I live in Paris. I don't know if Dan Brown ever set foot here; but if he did he obviously wasn't paying much attention.
Of course, he didn't have to come to Paris to write about it. I don't think Michael Crichton knew all there was to know about the subjects he wrote about, but he hired assistants to research the facts before he wrote about them. Seems like a minimum level of respect toward your readers to me.