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Hello, Seabrass, good to see you here. I don't as a rule read the previous reviews before doing mine - I don't want to be influenced and I think if I repeat something then it should have even more impact - so that part doesn't really bother me. I do like to sometimes read them after the fact. I mostly do the inline reviews now, but it seems like the regular reviews were listed at the bottom of the text the last time I did one; before Sol fixed it so I could actually do and see the inline reviews. But if the reviews aren't really there as I remember, then I think they should be; I mean anyone can simply ignore them like moi if they don't wish to read prior to doing a review. Take care. Vern

I like The Honeymooners for what that's worth. Second choice would be Christopher Lloyd. Third choice Bullwinkle. Fourth choice, Qausimodo.

Take care. Vern

I've already joined as just found a post by Sol which allows us Premium Members 10 groups now. I added the first post in the forums of your new group. Take care. Vern

Edited for PS: Forgot to mention Stevie was right.

"GP could start it; she loves those things," he says with a sly grin which suddenly turns to panic as he notices the evil eye he receives.

Take care. Vern

Not sure I have a favorite, but I've enjoyed such things as Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent (et al), which Brown used as a basis for The DaVinci Code; Holy Blood provided all the non-fiction research. Brown won the copyright infringement case, but I don't think he should have. Also read all The Lost Books of the Bible, plus The Gospel of Mary Magdalene as well as the recently discovered Gospel of Judas.

I've always been interested in the mistakes and contradictions of the Bible and all the things left out through canonization. My interest was really peaked in college when we studied the Graf-Wellhausen Theory which postulates that the first five books of the Bible were written in different strands woven together. I actually incorporated bits of the theory in my novel about growing up in a Baptist "orphanage."

Beyond that, in recent years I've read The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Ablom and The Shack by William Young, a very successful self-published work. And of course I'll pick up a book my wife is reading on occasion and start reading wherever she is and if it interests me I'll read when she finishes or sometimes before. Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon and Deceptions by Judith Michael (a husband wife team I understand) are two such examples. But mostly my wife reads romance novels so I don't get too many good reads from her, lol. I do read a lot of scientific stuff from papers, magazines, or the web. But books, mostly I read on here these days. I guess that sums up my reading for now. Take care. Vern

GP, just some rambling thinking on how to maximize the development of Genesis through the new possibilities on this site. Suppose you start a "group" specifically for G. Whenever you publish a chapter make sure you also select this new group you create so that it will be published to that group also.

Now your regular reviewers (and others) can review G in tnbw group for review points, BUT since it will also be published to your new G group, your regulars to include moi could add comments to all other inline reviews to get different opinions and or more detailed analysis of areas in question. You of course would provide your feedback to the comments as to what you think might work and what you reject. All the back and forth would remain with that review so new comments could be added after revisions and so on. Of course this could be done without creating a new group, but having a central place for regular reviewers to meet and discuss - not only within the text of each chapter, but also outside the text in forum threads for the group where incidentally regular reviews could also be discussed  - would certainly enhance the productivity and creativity of the whole project.

Just a thought and I might use it myself at some point so could use the practice. Take care. Vern

The read menu is cool in so far as it goes with book covers and all, but there simply aren't enough choices on a page. Perhaps if it would scroll through say fifty or so works per page as opposed to what, a dozen or so, then it would be so much more efficient to check for works which haven't just been published when you decide to log on. It is a pain to have to click through so many pages to get to a point where you are comfortable that you've already seen all those works listed before - you don' feel like you missed something just because you weren't able to check in for a few days.

It's kind of the same argument from the old site where everyone wanted their work listed on the front page and didn't want to take time to go to the "read and review" where lots of works were readily available. Limiting the works to so few listed on the first page only encourages people to adopt the same habit/mindframe which is counterproductive imho.

But, hey, the site just opened and we can't expect everything to be perfect for everyone at the outset - or at any point. Still some bugs, but I'm getting more comfortable all the time. Good job to date. Take care. Vern

PS: Wheee, all the delays are finally behind us. Just a little more patience for the bugs, folks.

Sol, I agree it sounds good on paper, but I'm not quite clear on how this change is going to work. As I understand it, at present each group can decide what "credits" if any are required to post within that group. So if the above change is made does that mean one could post something in a very low credit group and then it is also posted in all other groups for no additional credits even though other groups might require more credits for posting? Inquiring minds want to know. I can see it is going to take some time to get all the wrinkles ironed out. Good luck. Take care. Vern

With a nod toward GP's nostalgic photos of Gleason and Carney, I recommend TO THE MOON as an apt name for the this group - classic in all ways. Take care. Vern

If you use more words in your edit, then it will cost more points, whereas previously you could add as many words up to the limit without costing any more points; ergo, some (intentionally or not, might post a very short piece costing very few points and then go back and edit it into a very long piece without paying those extra points and also not giving the full credit for those who reviewed it after the revision since they were reviewing a lot more words and only getting credit for reviewing the much shorter original - if that makes sense.

The group thing: You can form a "group" just as this and within that group (you can leave it open to anyone or restrict membership according to your whims) you can choose to charge points for publishing works for review and give credits for reviewing or let members publish and review for free. Yeah, I don't know how it's gonna work either; seems like there will be a lot of divided attention, but who knows.

That's my take anyway. Take care. Vern

Oh, btw, I like the poltergeist image; fitting - the brown stuff not so much, kinda the way I felt after being plugged up for four days after my surgery, lol. Take care. Vern