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Okay, I feel you can get a lot of information about God from fantasy books. Yes, I said fantasy.

Many Christians believe the genre is taboo or something. However, when a good fantasy author creates a different world, and a different culture, they have to have SOME beliefs in that world/culture.

Here are some pretty good fantasy authors who managed to help me in my Walk with God:

Piers Anthony (Incarnations of Immortality)
Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth)

Piers Anthony helped me when I read about his view of Satan. It was very accurate. Not only on his mannerism and appearance, but Piers Anthony's main view of him. Satan is portreyed as the father of lies, the prince of evil. My favorite part in the series is when Satan is first described in On a Pale Horse. Zane meets Satan for the first time and thinks that he should see some monster spitting out threats, when, in fact, he's dressed like a business man and very handsome. In each book of the series, the new incarnation has to fight Satan.

Terry Goodkind: Yes, he's an atheist, but his series contains a lot of religion in the culture. Such as, the Sisters of the Light (nuns, no doubt) and the Creator (obviously a representation of God) and the Keeper (Clearly supposed to show Satan).

You should start with On a Pale Horse. It's pretty good! Really helped my Walk with God too. I like how Piers Anthony portrays Satan. It's more accurate, I think, than what most people do to portray him.

When Zane first meets him, you hear a very interesting way of describing him.

A lot of people tell me Piers Anthony makes Satan too human in the series. But Satan is more human than you might think. After all, he's a fallen angel filled with sin.

We're filled with sin. We're not fallen angels, but we are filled with sin. I think most people say that because they wanna think they're more like God than they are. Which is sad.

I tried reading Interview with a Vampire....I liked the movie better.

As for Harry Potter............I never read 6 and 7...........that's why I REALLY wanna see Halfblood Prince but my husband doesn't wanna give Rowling any of his money.