I never read either one all the way through from cover to cover.!-
I used Cliff notes to pass my test about Moby Dick at school. I found out that the Watchtower sured ain't no Cliff notes!
Cliff notes has a study guide about the OT, but they apparently don't touch the NT half of the Bible. One comment from their study guide -
" Although the literature that is now included in the Old Testament did not begin to appear until after the settlement in the land of Canaan, it was only natural that the history of the people should be projected back into the period that preceded the migration into Egypt, for a relatively large number of stories and legends had been handed down orally from one generation to another. Although there are good reasons for believing that these stories grew out of actual experiences, the narratives cannot be regarded as authentic history, nor can we place the same reliance on them as we do on the accounts of events that occurred after the settlement in Canaan. Accordingly, biblical scholars customarily refer to the period that preceded the migration to Egypt as the Age of the Patriarchs, or the prehistoric era of the Hebrew people."
How many others have tried and failed at reading the Bible from cover to cover?
PS- Some would classify both Moby Dick and the Bible as works of fiction with deep hidden meanings of truth.