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Coding Isis (2000)

by David Roys(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: I liked this. It was fast moving and grabbed your interest from the get go. A computer whiz is arrested for the murder of one of his protégés. He is not guilty of the crime and sets out to learn what happened and how. Most readers will 'guess' the culprits right away, but that is not significant. It is the relationship between the characters and the methodology they use that lures the reader into the story. Good reading.
review 2: 2.5 starsThe good: reasonably well written. Plot that grabs you immediately. Curious connections. Flawed, realistic characters, at least at the beginning.The bad: about halfway through the book, the plot becomes TOTALLY predictable. The main character is accused of a crime. The evidence mounts. This happens early and you ca... moren't help but wonder what's going to happen in the remaining 60 percent of the book. It gets resolved pretty much from one page to the next, with little to no explanation. After that, the predictability of the plot almost led me to discard the book. But I kept thinking, "it can't be this obvious." There's a ton of computer programming technical talk; not surprising as the central character is a whiz kid former British military special ops turned computer programmer. While I found the computer talk interesting, I'm pretty sure it would be tedious to most people. The characters start making no sense as characters. The main character is a college professor who changes jobs from one day to the next moving to the private sector and then moves back to teaching a month later. [As a former college professor I know that this process is way more complicated.] Additionally the time lines start making no sense as the story progresses. The ugly: gratuitous characters (i.e., the main character's old army buddy) thrown in late in the book, who do nothing to advance plot or character development. Gratuitous incidents (i.e., army buddy kisses his friend's wife and wife kisses him back) that do nothing to advance plot or character development. A totally obvious plot, who dunnit and why resolution that you could see coming a hundred miles away. An incredibly stupid, vain and arrogant main character who thinks he can outsmart an entire military intelligence machine. Ugh! I did read the novel to the end. I did get angry with myself for reading the novel to the end. I was also annoyed by the cheap trick that resolves the plot.That's it, that's all, take from this what you will. less

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