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[oakenguy]

Other folks: when you daydream, do you usually make things up from scratch? Or 'put down' a thread when you get interrupted and pick it up later?

And how often do you get surprised by what happens?


I finished the DaVinci Code this weekend. I liked it, enough that I'll probably look up other things by the same author. Some of the characters seemed a bit odd, and afterwards as I thought back I still wasn't sure WHY some of them did certain things or behaved the way they did, but it was full of braintwisty conspiracy theory goodness.

And oh oh OH, the Catholic Church has trouble if a book like this is a bestseller.

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[stanharding.livejournal.com]

Mom read The DaVinci< Code while visiting over Xmas and passed it off to me. She loved the beginning, but said it got a little... what, dull? preachy? towards the end. I'm looking forward to it, though.

The other book that she pushed (she bought it for everyone) was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which was, as promised, terrific.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I think I know what she means...there are times when the author/main character goes into Lecture Mode (sometimes literally--he flashes back to classes he's taught) to explain why something's significant, and it gets a bit clunkier and more frequent as the book goes on. Never quite at the level of Art Buchwald's "The President strode through the White House, which had been built in 1797, suffered terrific damage during the War of 1812 and given its distinctive white coat of paint during renovations afterwards..." but close sometimes. It was lucky for the author that the lectures were on really interesting subjects.

[opheliasphoenix.livejournal.com]

I'm reading 'Angels and Demons'- I haven't read the Da Vinci Code yet but I think I'd like to.

...and I usually pull daydreams out of mid air- I seldom 'leave off' but I sometimes do if the daydream was amazing enough.

[knowthyself.livejournal.com]

I've read them both - highly recommend Angels & Demons, which I enjoyed a bit more, but yes, The Da Vinci Code was also quite good!

And yes, the Catholic Church will indeed. Not that they don't already.

[opheliasphoenix.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention also- in the acknowledgements (for Angels & Demons) there is a thank you to the pope(?) I think? for his audience in asnwering questions. I thought that was interesting.

[akycha.livejournal.com]

About daydreams (making up from scratch vs. picking up a previous one):

I do both. How often I "pick up" a thread has to do with how interested I get in it and how complex the storyline gets!

And I often surprise myself. Far too often, really.

As CallunaV says, it's a "rich inner life."

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[ah42.livejournal.com]

I'm only a third through DaVinci Code, and I just picked up another book by him this afternoon at Wal-Mart :D

Hell, I'll probably pick up any book that mentions cryptography on the cover :P

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm probably about the 183rd person to mention Neil Stephenson to you, then?

[ah42.livejournal.com]

heh, nope.

but yeah. I've read cryptonomicon twice. I've been meaning to have a third go at it :P

Interesting note: I've read the illuminatus trilogy phi times.

[chaptal.livejournal.com]

DaVinci Code is a great fast paced book. Never boring. I thought the characters were a bit one dimensional. I read Angels and Demons and thought the same.

I'll get to Deception Point and, oh crud, what was Dan Brown's other book?

DaVinci is quite the best seller. Selling so much it carried Angels and Demons back on to the bestseller list in paper and hardback.

[claire-redfield.livejournal.com]

When I day dream, it's usually something very random... (Sometimes explicit--OOOOOOOOH... haha) The biggest thing with my daydreaming is that I'm daydreaming scenarios for characters I've created to write in their stories. I see it, I write it. So no, I don't really get surprised. Only time I surprise myself in daydreaming is when I'm actually sitting in bed at night, and I'm not asleep, but my mind starts dreaming sans the sleep and comes up with weird creepy shit to freak me out with.

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

You finished the book already!!?? I was wondering when you were going to fit it in. Did you stop to eat or any thing?

I really enjoyed it though I agree with the previous poster's mother that it got to be a bit dull towards the end. We'll discuss it at the meeting any way. :)

Re:when you daydream, do you usually make things up from scratch?

[lilacsinmarch.livejournal.com]

It happens to me a lot, the best ideas for stories and songs come to me when I am daydreaming.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Hi! Found you via friend-of-a-friend. I finished Da Vinci Code a month ago, and thought it was competently written, but the literary equivalent of a 1950's serial cliffhanger, with the characters finishing each chapter In Dire Peril! You can find more of my comments over here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/hauntmeister/50513.html).

Yes, definitely braintwisty conspiracy theory goodness, and a lot of it really felt like it could really be happening, one level beneath the one we live in...

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

On daydreaming:
My daydreams often surprise me... they are as random to me sometimes as night dreams.

but sometimes, daydreams are ways of visiting friends, places, times.

On the DaVinci Code:
I've heard great things about this book. :) And have heard from friends willing to put time into researching that a lot of the stuff they say is accurate. Rock.