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Originally Posted by KindleMan
... I thought Digital Fortress was pretty good too ...
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I'm the type of reader that likes to basically go "Brain Dead" while reading,
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Being "Brain Dead" is a strict requirement for reading this book if you know something about computers and/or cryptography and/or how government agencies work
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Originally Posted by KindleMan
The only thing that drives me crazy is when they botch up anything to do with airplanes (note the pic) because I notice it.
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If you know something ... anything ... about the abovementioned subjects each scene, each plot, each "technical" remark screams at you.
note the pic
His technical consultants and advisors (that got a mention in the credits) from NSA must have fainted from bouts of hysterical laughter when reading the manuscript and suggesting "improvements".
The book makes one wonder where was the editor when the manuscript was being made into a book. I do not mean editor that checks the grammar but the one that can catch things like "welding of ceramics", "fire that PRODUCES oxygen", ballant mathematical igonrance (not high matthematics, just plain old multiplication), ...
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...chnical_Errors
http://becomingparanoid.com/2006/03/...own-got-wrong/
http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHF...llnumber=mf340
http://victoria.tc.ca/int-grps/books...v/bkdgtlft.rvw
http://cipher-text.blogspot.com/2005...-fortress.html