I'm certainly no Biblical scholar, (heck, I'm not even a Christian) but I'm certain the Bible isn't "one story" in the sense that the Wheel of Time books are one story. Take it just from the beginning--Genesis is the story of the creation of the world and the fall of Man, the story of the flood and the chronicaling of several generations. Exodus is the story of the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the promised land and of the handing down of the Ten Commandments. Leviticus and Deuteronomy I always get confused, but one of them is a whole bunch of "begats" and the other is the description of the Laws. Or maybe they're both a little of both. And after that I get confused as all heck, so I won't go on. But my point (and I do have one) is that the Bible is more a collection of short stories with a common theme than a cohesive novel.

Mmm, I need to work on my communication skills ... when I suggested that the Bible was indeed one story - albeit told through a multidue of characters/ages etc. - I suppose I was getting at, in a round about fashion, that it is one story about faith, humanity etc (BTW, I'm not a Christian either) ... even now, alas, it's too late in the day for me to find the right words to express this clearly. Apologies for that.

>I can't imagine a green colorless frog, either. Want to place bets on if they really exists?

A certain school of philosophy (escapes me which) suggested that if you can imagine a green colourless frog, you're basically tapping into a universe of Perfect Ideas, wherein this frog does indeed exist ... even by giving a notion consideration, the fact that it exists in your mind (and now in mine) does not make it any less real than the computer infront of you ... LOL we must be wary, now, not to take this thread into a discussion on the 'what is reality?' debate ...

Also - my thanks for mentioning Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms. I shall look into these titles, too, at some time.

>I don't know if you should be offended or not. I just know that many people on rec.arts.sf.written will say "Gene Wolfe is my favorite writer" or some such, and others will shoot back that he's too caught up with style to be concerned with other things, or some such. And anytime someone likes form over function, I tend to lable them "snooty," as I am almost incapable of placing form over function.

: ) I choose not to be offended, thank you LOL. Can you please explain what you mean by form and function?