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octavia_cade 's review for:
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
A series of lengthy conversations between Campbell and Moyers, on the place of mythology in the past and what it can offer us today. Even edited as this is from a series of television programmes, this is clearly an erudite discussion between two very intelligent people, and it makes a lot of interesting points. Campbell, in particular, is an expert in the subject, able to pull illustrative examples out at the drop of a hat, and he's a wonderful storyteller. But it's just so goddamn repetitive. I honestly feel like this could have been an excellent, focused little book at half the length, but it meanders and repeats itself page after page after page... I'd gone to the library to get Hero with a Thousand Faces but someone had already borrowed it, so I put a hold on and got this instead. I'm still interested in reading Hero, but I'm desperately hoping for a little more concision.