kwlarsen 's review for:

The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

3.0

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Finally I got through this book! It is a challenging read....I have been slowly chipping away at it for over 2 years. It is not written for a broad audience, and I struggled many times to follow Campbell's thesis. I have no doubt it is a very detailed and efficient treatment of the subject, especially for the time (1960s) but boy, it is not an easy read. I would love to be able to talk to Campbell today, and ask him how pop culture's enrapture with the superhero mythos fits into his ideas, but sadly we'll never get to hear him speak on that.

I would not recommend this for anyone wanting bedtime reading. It's very detailed, complicated, and written in an academic fashion.