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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
This book is packed with stories and can be appreciated many times over. It is a book describing commonalities of mythology and as such contains countless myths within it.
For my first run through I was most interested in learning the steps of the hero's quest, the broad strokes commonalities between myths. This alone is fascinating and it's fun thinking of favorite movies or books and recognizing how they adhere to the formula Campbell describes.
For a future future reread, there is a near endless wealth of various myths from all over the world and from throughout human history correlating with each step of the journey. When I'm not jaded by that last horrible mythology book I read, I can come back to this and enjoy the specifics.
Very dense, and annoyingly heavily based on now mostly debunked psychology (book was written in 1950s and it leans heavily on psychoanalysis), this book offers a great deal of value and allows you to better appreciate the significance of any other media you experience.
For my first run through I was most interested in learning the steps of the hero's quest, the broad strokes commonalities between myths. This alone is fascinating and it's fun thinking of favorite movies or books and recognizing how they adhere to the formula Campbell describes.
For a future future reread, there is a near endless wealth of various myths from all over the world and from throughout human history correlating with each step of the journey. When I'm not jaded by that last horrible mythology book I read, I can come back to this and enjoy the specifics.
Very dense, and annoyingly heavily based on now mostly debunked psychology (book was written in 1950s and it leans heavily on psychoanalysis), this book offers a great deal of value and allows you to better appreciate the significance of any other media you experience.