Preview to a Novel

The Front Cover
• Digital Fortress by: Dan Brown (#1 NY Times bestselling author)
• "The Ultimate Code"
• What do you think the book is about? The book is likely about some sort of code that is important to the safety of a group of people.
• Who's eyes are depicted on the cover? Are the numbers on the cover actually related to the code.

The Back Cover
• Contains praise for Digital Fortress
• The comments seem to be highly positive. The book seems as though it will be fast paced and exciting to read.
• It doesn't reveal any actual plot information but from the praise I can tell that this will be a thriller about code breaking.

Inside the Book
• Copyright-1998
• Is there a dedication? "For my parents... my mentors and my heroes."
• Table of Contents? No
• Other titles listed by the author? Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, Deception Point
• The author's writing style is very appealing to me. Much of the plot is advanced through dialog and action scenes. The rest of the bulk of the novel is factual asides that the author puts in for the authors interest purpose.

My overall impression is that I would really enjoy to read this book. I like thrillers and I read The Da Vinci Code and Deception Point and I loved them both. Unfortunately, this book is apparently not challenging enough or worthwhile reading for educational purposes and I will likely have to swap it out for a book that I will not enjoy and, due to me not enjoying, will not get anything worthwhile out of. This is the dilemma I often face: to read something mindless and entertaining, or try to read something intelligent and likely give up 30-40 pages in and end up not reading anything at all. While I believe the former to be more worthwhile, it is likely the latter that I will have to choose.