Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
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Book Reviews of Myths to Live By
Book Review: myths to live by
Summary: 5 Stars
Best book ever. I bought several copies to give to friends and family.
The chapter on schizophrenia makes more sense than any thing I've ever read.
Primitive mythology is harder to read, but more informative.
Joseph Campbell is a national treasure.
Book Review: Powerful
Summary: 5 Stars
If you feel you are not fullfilling your souls quest and this book catches you at the right moment, it can change you lifeBook Review: Marvelous
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything by Joseph Campbell is wonderful, but these transcribed talks are the most approachable.Book Review: Useful and beautiful
Summary: 4 Stars
This book reads like an essential afterword to the great video series. The chapters on mythologies of love, and of war and peace are especially effective. Campbell's teaching is direct, and honed to a useful, beautiful glow. He's a courageous thinker, able to order considerable insights with impeccable ease. Leaves us the richer. He's hailed for the scope of his vision, yet it's the inevitable intimacy of Campbell's teaching genius that makes his books so effective. Read this book and find a realm vaster and more intimate than one that brung ya! --that's effective spiritual reading, the fruit of clearly intense scholarship, and Campbell makes it immediate and consoling. Delivers what it promises. It's difficult to be disappointed by stuff this fine.Book Review: As Relevent Today as When Campbell lectured
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a series of Lectures given by Professor Campbell.Campbell's writing style is very accessible to scholars and non scholars alike tho. For anyone interested in not only research and theory on world mythology, but also human pyschology and any kind of insight into the human condition should read this book.
Although there is no clear thesis stated in the beginning the lectures/chapters have a very nice and logical flow to them. To conclude I can't say this book changed my life, but it made me think and as his writing/lectures progressed it became obvious he had clear objective in mind which he met an a concise and clear manner. An interesting read.