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A review by dmturner
The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human by Lee Child
5.0
A delightful long essay
Between the author’s cheerful, clear prose and the delightful and deliberate assumption of matrilineal descent in the human race, this long essay about the origins and functions of fiction and the concept of the hero is a pleasant short read. The author of the Jack Reacher books, Lee Child must have decided he had something he wanted to say about those things (and something to say in passing about linguistics) and he said it. I enjoyed reading it.
Between the author’s cheerful, clear prose and the delightful and deliberate assumption of matrilineal descent in the human race, this long essay about the origins and functions of fiction and the concept of the hero is a pleasant short read. The author of the Jack Reacher books, Lee Child must have decided he had something he wanted to say about those things (and something to say in passing about linguistics) and he said it. I enjoyed reading it.