"Divine Tale" Whomst the fucketh chose that pretentious ass option? What, you want the Bible? That's what you want? What's next, the ten commandments in Hebrew?
No, nothing like that terrible work of tedium. The only reason you could possibly 'gain' from a re-read is because you *missed* things entirely because it's a trillion page mess!
Not exactly a subtle book, The Bible. Maybe some psalms? If you simply ignore the duds...?
It's why church-speaking folk gotta tell ya both what to be reading and what ya should ought be gleanin from it! It's because if you set someone to read the bible starting from genesis, and you're wanting them to turn out good and god-fearing: you've made a mistake! Only thing that'll do is make people 'doubt', and while that's great for your priests: it is *not* what you want in a congregation!
No no, *real* 'divine tales' are ones that take on multiple complex concepts at once, such that *despite* being written well: some of the meaning won't be realized until you're on your fourth
fascinated read! Flow was that for me, and I should have liked for it to have hit Bible length!
Give me my golden calf heathen work of GL with real substance to it to worship! I shouldn't have to transubstantiate the meaning of anything worth reading! :D Besides, 3/4s of those 10 commandments are a bit silly, about all I'm on board with is 'thou shalt not kill' and something something 'shalt not covet thy neighbor's oxen', and even then those only work as a general rule: sometimes there's darn good reason for vicious murder and theft most vile!
Bible's like, full on anti-revenge about halfway through. Can't stand it. All peaceable and stuff, 'cept for them witches and hell-flowin folk, yknow? We go from 'I ain't my brother's keeper' to 'these guys heckin sinnin, better drown them all'... to 'god so loved the world that he sacrificed his only begotten son' yadayada Mary was 13 yadayada no more sinning so long as you shall believe and never mind the forsaken stuff:
Where's the consistency?! Job exists as a little mini book, and it should come to nobody's surprise that it's my favorite despite having no 'interesting' content besides human suffering. Even Daniel and the Lion's Den ends with the baddies all om nommed! Plagues of killing first born (male) children! There's so much beautiful death and misery in the first half, and in the second half the worst thing that happens is *one* guy gets crucified? AND HE DOESN'T EVEN DIE!? GIVE ME BACK MY DIVINE TRAGEDY!
This is what the damned Iliad is for I suppose, and the Odyssey I suppose, albeit it's ending's still a bit too happy for me. Stupid dog, remembering its old master. Well, I think like, almost everyone else on that journey dies, so it's okay. The Bible ends with that weird section about rapture and angels and hellfire and lakes of fire and fun little things about horsies, and that's fine, but it's kinda out of nowhere considering the second half of the book?
It's like a weird Deus Ex Machina ending, go figure.