OccultHawk

I've read all of the Bible. The interesting stuff is easy to miss because it's buried in mounds of repetitive boringness. You have to be alert.

The Batlord

Regardless, it and the Quran shouldn't be on a non-fiction list.

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OccultHawk

I'm not sure if the Bible is plot driven enough to be fiction. I guess because there are stories buried in an endless list of names and temple dimensions and exaltations. I doubt more than 1 percent of people with Ph.D's in Divinity have actually read it. It's excruciating. So is Darwin. Which I also felt like I needed to put myself through.

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Pet_Sounds

1. Whether or not you agree with the ideas in the Bible and the Quran, they have shaped the world. Without understanding those ideas, you cannot understand the history of the past 2000 years. It would be like trying to understand the history of the Soviet Union without reading the Communist Manifesto.

2. "Non-fiction" does not mean the same thing as factual. If it did, Nietzsche and Plato would have to be removed from the list.

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The Batlord

I think "made up" is a sufficient qualifier.

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Pet_Sounds

Would you classify philosophy as fiction?

EDIT: Read The Silmarillion when I was a Tolkien nut. God, it was dry.

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OccultHawk

I read that boring **** as well. It's not exactly fiction, is it?

The Batlord

The **** else would it be? And The Silmarillion is awesome.

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OccultHawk

I checked it's considered fiction. I thought of it more like a book about a fictitious world. Like if another author wrote an encyclopedia on the universe of Tolkien.

Sort of like a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual or like a module. Not exactly but sort of.