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Is "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" supposed to read like the bible?

I've just picked up "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and it honestly feels like I'm trying to read the bible cover-to-cover. It feels plotless, preachy and bloated with unnecessary metaphor. I have a budding interest in philosophy, but I'm on the easily distractable side and god, is it *boring* me. Am I doing this wrong? Do I need to read something else for background?
gpt
Yes, the book is meant to read like the Bible. The language is even modelled on Luther's German translation of the Bible. It also has pastiches of various other religions and traditions of learning. It's part parody, part heartfelt attempt to communicate a message. It's a very strange project within the wider tradition of philosophy: it's something like an attempt to conjure up what kind of prophetic tradition the world would have had if the Transvaluation of All Values held the kind of status among people that Christianity did in Nietzsche's milieu.