Comments on: Book review: Daemon by Daniel Suarez

By: Nicolai Wadstrom

Nicolai Wadstrom — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:34:42 +0000

@greg: Sorry to hear, I didn’t know. And I did in fact read and reviewed this book before that, just hadn’t time to finalize and post it. But I am really sorry to hear this, I have missed it in the news (I became a father in November, and life have been in a blur and attention elsewhere until now). I much enjoyed Michael Crichton’s books, and is parting is a loss to the world.

@Wille and @cj, Yes Dan Brown is not much of a favorite, I did read most of his books, but only the Da Vinci Code held up to some extent, but it felt more like a movie script, and I think the movie was better than the book!
Michael Crichton as mentioned on the other hand was very good, although not all of his books have turned out as excellent movies (some have), but the books are good.

By: Carl-Johan Sveningsson

Carl-Johan Sveningsson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:05:00 +0000

@Nicolai, nice review, thanks! I will write mine as soon as I find the time as well. And it will be somewhat more obsessively positive than yours

@Wille, I so agree with you, I absolutely suffered through Digital Fortress as well, D.B. did everything he could have done right wrong. I describe “Daemon” as “somewhat like Dan Brown style, except with excellent background research, I.e. fundamentally unlike Dan Brown”

By: greg

greg — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:32:06 +0000

Michael Crichton died in November, don’t know what he would be watching out for.

By: Wille

Wille — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:24:56 +0000

The most ridiculous book in the genre I ever read was “Digital Fortress” by Dan Brown of “Da Vinci Code”-fame.
As a techie myself, I cringed through half the book at the inaccuracies and preposterous contraptions described in the book..