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The Road, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, is a slice of life of a man and his son in the post-apocalyptic United States. Trying to stay alive with little to eat and with cannibals roaming the countryside is no easy task. Like another of his novels, No Country for Old [...]

In Digital Fortress, Dan Brown, the author of Angels & Demons and the Da Vinci Code, takes a stab at the realm of computers and high tech encryption verses our rights as citizens to keep secrets.
Dan Brown has picked a new hero for us to follow — or a couple of them. One of [...]

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown was the first book that the now famous author of the Da Vinci Code wrote.

His name was Remo.
I was first introduced to Remo Williams and the Destroyer Series through Marvel Comics. I bought a large-format comic book that said “Destroyer” on the front and featured a wonderful drawing of a man in his mid 30s being crushed against a wall by a large, blue, human-like creature. Immediately [...]

Before the movie actually came out, I borrowed a copy of The Da Vinci Code from my father-in-law to figure out what all of the hubbub was about. (I did the exact same thing with the very first Harry Potter book.)
I have to say that I wasn’t disappointed.