Sharing my thoughts

[thesummerqueen]

I would also recommend reading the Bible.

I wouldn't. You don't have to read the 9,000 page volume entitled "On the Manufacture and Proper Cut of Invisible Magic Fabrics" to mention that the emperor has no clothes.

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To add - there are only so many books in ones lifetime, you never get those minutes back, and every bible read is one less Harry Potter - continuing further every Harry Potter is one less War and Peace..and that's pretty much how those tomes fall, respectively, on the totem pole of literature (in my estimation). I mean hell, if you're going to read something - one of our members published a book recently...willing to bet it's better written than the rag people turn to for divine guidance and you can even chat up the author if you have questions.

Cliff Notes for things like the Bible is generally enough. I'd keep one on hand that has extensive footnotes, though. My Tanakh with notes on controversial translations of words or passages is handy now and then.