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                 Plan 9 from Outer Space wasn't quite as silly
                                        
Well, I've finished reading [1] _Digital Fortress_ [2] and I have to say,
much like _The Da Vinci Code_ [3], the writing was amateurish, with very
short sentances in very short chapters, probably written with our current
attention deficit population in mind. It also read like a movie, with each
chapter being a scene. And it certainly doesn't hurt that it has several
chase scenes and a major explosion towards the end. 

But dispite the poor writing, poor characterizations, poor research and a
plot that closely follows _The Da Vinci Code_ [4] (reknown male is killed in
the opening scene, a handsom and yet very intelligent professor gets a call
to help investigate some conspriacy involving said dead man who has a
gorgeous bombshell with a Ph.D. helping him over the next 24 hours) I still
found it to be a real page turner. 

I think because I was curious as to just how bad it could be. 

It was pretty bad [5] (and don't read if you don't want spoilers). 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/23.1
[2] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312995423/conmanlaborat-20
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400079179/conmanlaborat-20
[4] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400079179/conmanlaborat-20
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/29/digital.fortress.x-html

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