Blockbusters from Page to Film

The minor godlet has been reading again:

In preparation for the cinema release of Angels & Demons and of the upcoming release of his latest book The Symbol, class were asked to read some of Dan Brown's other work.

It's hardly worth mentioning Da Vinci Code as the world and his dog have already read that (and possibly seen the movie too), and Angels & Demons similarly involves a certain amount of papal religiosity. But there is some hard-ish science along the way to stir the geek-ometer, so the book does get the minor godlet seal of approval.

Pre-Da Vinci is the wonderful, the amazing Digital Fortress - if you'd always wished you could be a computer hacker but didn't quite know how to begin, you may well love this book. It's got just about everything - gigantic supercomputers, top secret programme code, huge explosions with massive quantities of impenetrable black smoke, good guys, bad guys, guys who seem to swap sides. And European travel of course, setting the scene for the rest of Dan's books.

On another tack altogether we're in the icy wastes of the arctic for the wonderful, the amazing Deception Point. With this book we seem to gain insights into the hush-hush world at the top of the ladder of american politics, and also (probably) learn an unlikely new word to describe the job of someone who fillets the important points out of lengthy documents and presents the precis to the president - in other words picks out the gist of the document, and is therefore a Gister... All that politicking stuff provides the background and the support for a storyline straight out of Stargate - and all the better for that, claims the minor godlet.

So, if the pope floats your boat, stick with Da Vinci and Angels, but if you've had enough of that stuff, totally do not forget to pick up Digital Fortress and Deception Point.

Good reading until tomorrow.