LifeOnaPlate

yeah, I don't tend to save my best chickens, editorially speaking, for message board conversation

I've tiptoed around it but maybe I should just be frank: I believe the publisher decided to take advantage of publicity by releasing it now in order to sell more copies of the book. You're welcome to thinking that it was a stratagem by Bob Bennett to get more votes, but having read the book that story becomes much more difficult to believe.

I am familiar. I just think, upon examination of the circumstances, the parties involved, the "politics" of publishing, the statements of the author, and the content of the book itself that this isn't some sort of reelection ploy by Bob Bennett. But it seems we are just trading subjective opinions (though one of us seems to have analyzed more data and also I am somewhat biased towards my own interpretation when no better competing interpretation is advanced than sheer speculation). So with that, I'll leave you all be. :)

Methinks you are not very familiar with the publishing industry.

I agree. Deseret Book stands to gain more than Bennett does by releasing it right now. I believe him when he says it was the publisher's decision because I have seen similar things occur in the past. So did DB release it because of the timing and so forth? Possible. Did Bennett make a request or a push that such be the case? Not probable imo. Plus, read the book and judge it by its own merits. Who cares about the timing if the meat tastes good. And it kind of does.

Howdy folks. I wrote that long review. I expected Bennett's book to be some politically motivated thing. I fully expected to not like the book and to see it as a campaign gimmick. I explain in the review why my opinion on that changed. (Even though I am probably still not voting for the fellow.) It would be a shame to just dismiss it without trying to see what it is about though. I almost missed out on a decent read.

Moksha, I find it odd that you'd ask that here, you rascal.

If the claims were faulty? Absolutely. FAIR has many different takes on the subject among the different members and they have no problems engaging with each other. Meldrum's approach is dramatically un-scholarly. I made up that word for the occasion.

Actually, Meldrum insinuates on his new blog that FAIR is only reviewing his work this way because of a profit motive, when FAIR is entirely owned and operated on a volunteer basis.

As primary chorister I have to miss Priesthood meeting, so I am grateful for the site Feast upon the Word Blog They go over the PH/RS and Sunday School lessons each week. [thanks for the mention, ms, etc.]

Just wanted to point out that our WCU friend Justin said he refuses to read the Book of Mormon because it is boring.

Thanks!

Are there any firesides or meetings or anything with Brother Madsen anytime soon? I know he's gettign a long and I always wanted to shake his hand and say hello.

Ouch credibility

I'll see if I can track it down; the last time I heard it was in a Hugh Nibley talk called Exaltation and Eternal Life. The mp3- http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=838&tid=2