Just finished reading digital fortress overall the stroy was good but at the end it felt very dragged out especially with the final ending really surprised at how simple the final code was
I just re-read Dan Brown's Angels & Demons over these last two weeks, and then re-watched Ron Howard's film adaptation - Angels & Demons. I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time, but I experienced it differently. I hadn't read any of the Robert Langdon Books when I watched the movie the first time, and so I didn't know how it was different from the book. Now that I've read the book twice since I've watched the first movie, I take minor, negligible issue with of the ways the book was adapted into film
I get that the producers of the movie and Ron Howard wanted to make this movie more action-oriented than Da Vinci Code, but there were so many great moments of dialogue and monologue in the book that were omitted in the movie. I wish there were a director with a hybrid vision of Edward Berger (Conclave) and James Hawes (The Amateur) to handle an adaptation of Angels & Demons. Also, I think it'd make for a better show. Maybe that's what is really the issue - 2+ hour runtimes just can't capture the magic of the books.
Did you know the US hardback has real hidden codes on the dust jacket? One of them points to Kryptos — an actual unsolved CIA sculpture at Langley that nobody has cracked in decades.
In this episode we get into:
🗝️ The three hidden codes on the US cover — including GPS coordinates tied to that real, still-unsolved CIA cipher
😈Why the villain Sir Leigh Teabing's name is a straight anagram of the two authors who later sued Dan Brown for plagiarism
⚖️ The judge who buried his own Fibonacci-coded message inside the 71-page court ruling on that case
The real, sealed vaults under Rosslyn Chapel — untouched since 1690
🎶 Dan Brown's pre-fame life as a failed pop star, including a self-produced kids' cassette and a soft rock CD journalists still bring up
✝️ The Catholic Church's actual response — they appointed an archbishop specifically to debunk the book
Give it a listen here: https://www.booktriviapodcast.com/episodes/s2-e7-the-da-vinci-code
i am quite new to reading and when i am reading this book i just feel like why do i even need to know this. like i dont care about whats going on in the book kindah feeling 😂
i am 250 pages in and i dont know if its me or this book. i was reading the count of monte cristo earlier, although it was leghthy i was still hooked to the characters and the story
but with this, its blahhhhh
i am curious to end this and expecting to shit about it
what do you think 🤔