A review by subplotkudzu
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall

2.0

This was a quick read, meant to be an analysis of how humans instinctively tell stories, but the author never got too deep into any one aspect and instead breezed over a half dozen different variations on the theme. His somewhat dismissive comments concerning RPGs and LARPing in the final chapter were inaccurate enough to make me question the depth of scholarship in the rest of the book. I'm still happy I read it, and there are certainly some parts of it that I will be swiping for, no surprise, role playing games, but I was expecting a deeper, more scholarly work.