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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first exposure to Campbell's work, and in retrospect, it was probably not the best volume to start with.  For one thing, this isn't so much a book with a coherent theme as a series of essays and lectures from several different years all packaged together.  That in itself was a bit of a p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75178625">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Campbell is boring, yet amazingly interesting at the same time. Campbell is basically trying to connect primitive mythology, to modern religion/myth, and drug use or dreams, which all have similar context. <br/><br/>Here are a few quotes that stuck:<br/><br/>“things which once were in contact ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73803336">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read parts of just about all Joseph Campbell's works, and since I haven't read too much literature on comparative spirituality, I always learn really interesting facts I didn't know.  Lots of these essays had fascinating topics, and I loved learning that decapitated heads are an important part ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56361614">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How and why did humans begin worshiping gods and sacrificing animals (and other people)?  What are myths made of?  Where did the idea of good vs. evil begin?  What are the common themes of all myths?<br/><br/>If you have ever wondered about these things, as have I, then you will enjoy this little ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58669174">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't quite get why this is rated so highly by so many people. This book is a collection of lectures that barely holds together. Most of the content is not new, but rather popularization of older ideas even if there are some curve balls in there. Saying that religion and ritual are a projection of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34076103">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Typical Campbell, the book is adapted from a series of talks he gave at the Cooper Union Forum between 1958 and 1971... equal parts penetrating analysis and sweeping generalization, grandiloquently naive structuralist explication and gleefully corroborative ethnic bricolage, basic comparative-religi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1291438">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice condensed version of a collection of Joseph Campbell essays, dating back to the 1960's.  Zen, Love, War and mahayana Buddhism are all covered in this compelling book on mythology.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was all right. It was taken from a series of lectures given at the Cooper Union but I thought the overall flow was less than it could have been. I found myself losing interest towards the end. The upside was that it makes me want to re-read &quot;The Hero with a Thousand Faces&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful book, it answers questions you didn't even know you had. I am a huge fan of his, reading it as part of my recommended reading for grad school.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The brilliant author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths, in a fascinating, very personal work which explores the enduring power of the myths that influence our lives and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Be careful with some of his hasty generalizations and look out for his strong opinions.  But besides that it is a fascinating book.<br/>]]></body>
    
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