I’ll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it’s about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I’ll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.
What is the wackiest / craziest book you’ve read and did you enjoy the ride?
The Bible. The Old Testament, when read purely as a piece of literature, is completely insane.
Once you get past all the “this guy was the son of this guy who was the son of this guy who fathered this other guy” stuff the Bible goes kinda hard
It’s weird how little people know of these stories. Even people who believe God basically wrote the entire thing often barely know a few Old Testament stories. I find it’s incredibly interesting how different our priorities are, how open they were to magic causing all sorts. One of the first stories- the slave girl who has been asked to bear a child for her master, she runs away to avoid the abuse. Angels come down. you imagine they’ll give her the strength to carry on, or the knowledge to travel far away. But no. They tell her to go back and do as she is told. It’s brutal.
Oh yes, a very hard read. It’s a series of repetitions, utter cruelty, boring stuff, rinse and repeat.
But there are gems there, too. I loved the bit where Moses has a magic battle with some Egyptian wizard 😂