/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11964337]

Are there any books (or collections of books normally printed as a single volume) that have as much variety in terms of content as the Bible?
It's got plenty of moral teachings, lots of dramatic stories, epic tales of the story of a great people, religiously-themed poetry, inspirational messages, and mythological-like fantasy stories.

[Anonymous No.11964418]

Plato's Dialogues
The Mahabharata

[Anonymous No.11964536]

>>11964337
>It's got plenty of shit.

ftfy. Not too much variation, is there?

[Anonymous No.11964892]

>>11964337
The Book of Mormon, seriously.

[Anonymous No.11964898]

>>11964892
If I wanted a ripoff of the Bible, I'd pick the Quran or Thus Spake Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.11964980]

Maybe the Trippytakas

[Anonymous No.11965718]

Don't forget erotic poetry.
>Like cassia and camel’s thorn I gave forth perfume,
>and like choice myrrh I spread my fragrance,
>like galbanum, onycha, and stacte,
>and like the odor of incense in the tent.
>Like a terebinth I spread out my branches,
>and my branches are glorious and graceful.
>Like the vine I bud forth delights,
>and my blossoms become glorious and abundant fruit.
>Come to me, you who desire me,
>and eat your fill of my fruits.
>For the memory of me is sweeter than honey,
>and the possession of me sweeter than the honeycomb.
>Those who eat of me will hunger for more,
>and those who drink of me will thirst for more.
Why is Wisdom-chan so lewd?

[Anonymous No.11965799]

>>11964898
You asked and I gave a genuine answer.
Not saying you have to believe it, but it’s going to fit exactly what you’re looking for.

[Anonymous No.11966071]

the Torah is a book on its own no one can compete

[Anonymous No.11966327]

>>11965718
that's not sexy, that's boring and clunky and awkward... how could anyone find that erotic.

woah I'm like a bunch of plants that you don't know about and have never seen

[Anonymous No.11967010]

>>11964418
>The Mahabharata
Definitely, its scope is insane

"What is not here is nowhere at all"

>>11964892
Not really, it's a pretty homogenous series of preaching and pseudo-history.

[Anonymous No.11967038]

>>11966327
Song of Songs is the racy one, I don't know why that guy's quoting Sirach

>Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
>Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
>Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

>My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
>I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

[Anonymous No.11967042]

>>11964337
dunno anon, it's pretty jewey.

[Anonymous No.11968006]

>>11966327
>>11967038
The joke is that the Bible does have erotic poetry, but that isn't it, but it does sound dirty if you think about it that way.

[Anonymous No.11968144]

>>11964337
Moby Dick and Ulysses

[Anonymous No.11968171]

>>11968006
Taking this opportunity to shill John Donne's Holy Sonnets, which are both pious and steamy as hell. Allow me to entice you with Sonnet 14:

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy:
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

[Anonymous No.11968369]

>>11964337
The Divine Comedy
Goethe's Faust
Gravity's Rainbow.