manny33
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hi...I'm new here in this forum, so excuse any protocol errors.. and, since I don't yet know how to use the forum I saw your message regarding an "error" and so I am taking the easy way and contacting you directly..hope you receive this...
I am just now in process of reading Digital Fortres[don't know where I have been, but I hadn't read any of Dan Brown's novels untill I heard of Da Vinci Code this past week and got the only book of Dan's in the library] ... the book is fast paced, but tho only thru half of it, I have two problems with "editing" I guess...
First, when David is in the hotel talking German to the fat guy, he uses the familiar Du rather than the formal Zie, and there related verbs ...being married to a German, she says that is MOST unlikely to happen...
Second, still in the hotel room when he speaks with Rocio, she calls him Mr. Becker, tho he had not given her his name?
I'm not nitpicking, but just wanted to know if others saw these errors, and perhaps other ones [seein your post]
I'm not sure if I get answers here, but my email is masmpr@ameritech.net....thank you in advance....Manny
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risingsun
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Reged: 06/05/05
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You know, I noticed the du thing too. Also when David talks to the telephone guy in search for Rocio, he asks, "Hablas aleman", when it should be, "Habla aleman", because he should be using the polite form.
Also, some of the words in Japanese were wrong. I would know, because I'm Japanese. And Ensei Tankado is hardly a Japanese name either.
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8549176320abc
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Did any one notice
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The sounds of crypto rushed into node 3 for the first time since its construction
(chapter 64 when Susan brakes the wall). Wouldn't the sound enter whenever the door was open?
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Governments offer us safety for our freedom. It is by seeing this safety as false that we are freed.
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Wake
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Does it say what the doors were like?
If there were those rotating doors, like the ones in Xmen then the entrance to crypto would be sealed as a throughway would be made with Node 3.
IMHO
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8549176320abc
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They were double sliding doors (the end of chapter 62).
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Governments offer us safety for our freedom. It is by seeing this safety as false that we are freed.
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reader
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Reged: 07/14/05
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Brown claims to have studied Art History at Seville University, yet he completely mis-describes the Giralda. There are no steps inside, you climb a ramp. It is not accessed from the Patio de las Naranjas. The Ayuntamiento is not on Plaza de Espana.
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Michelangelo
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interesting
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walid97
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Reged: 12/31/05
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mmm.. wondering these !
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crypto
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Reged: 01/07/06
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rocio never addresses david as 'Mr. Becker'...i just checked it again
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anyankian
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Reged: 02/23/06
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I agree that this book has quite a lot of errors. In chapter 3 it is said about David that he speaks Asian dialects, Spanish, French and Italian. Nothing about German. But then suddenly, in chapter 32 he speaks 'perfect German'... I am German and I can say his German is far from perfect... same goes for the Spanish... Europeans are big fans of formal addressing. I think when you write a book these things should be researched and perfected... my opinion.
Other than that I enjoyed Digital Fortress... it doesnt come close to Angels & Demons but in general it's a good read.
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aintel
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Funny, I didn't notice those two errors particularly... First one is probably because the only words in German I know are "swine" and "shit". The other, I'm not sure is true.
However, there have been two things bugging me after the first time I read the book. I had to go back and make notes on the entire novel and am still confused. If anyone knows, please clarify this for me:
A) If a hacker was getting into my computer, I would get on the floor and immediately disconnect the little blue ethernet cable at the back. Why doesn't NSA just shut off it's internet and deal with the virus which is only intended to attack it's security?
B) Soshi found orphan text... WHERE?! Where the hell did she find those 64 letters? In Ensei's code? The "programming"? I thought the code was locked away in the digitial fortress, WHICH THEY CAN'T OPEN!
Very confused...
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Davyh
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Reged: 12/01/06
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A) I wondered that too. But maybe only the input devices vere at hand, plus the screen, of course, and the mainframe itself was unaccessable.
B) TRANSLTR really broke the code, which released the virus. And i quess they looked at the worm's code. The worm just fooled it tho think it hasn't broken the code.
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