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This was my least favorite of Dan Brown's books. It was an easy read, but I found myself lost in all of the technical details of the technology based plot. There were some twists and turns but I found it to be predictable towards the end and I endured some really boring chapters involving Susan's endless hours spent in the NSA's office. Wait for the movie if they ever make one.

The book I felt dealt with real life situations well. Things worked out in the end but didn't take the path that you would expect them to. Life was hard for everyone in the book. Old emotions were dragged up and people acted like people: imperfect but with the best intentions.

I'm really surprised that this won a Pulitzer. I give it two stars for effort. I see where the author was going with the idea behind the novel: a work of feminist literature that erases its protagonist in order to portray the way our society erases women. Daisy has no real substance, nothing for the reader to cling to, because all we know of her is through people's recollections and assumptions (including her own), letters, and newspaper articles. Nice premise. Too bad it ends up being only mildly interesting at best and more often than that just plain boring (I almost didn't finish, except that I was hell bent on finding out what all the fuss was about). Oops, you went too far and ripped out the novel's soul along with Daisy's. But hey, I've been out of school a while. Maybe I'm missing something.