I have to read this book again! I read it so fast that I think I missed a major plot point. I don’t want to give it away but I was so pissed when I finished the book because I didn’t figure something out that I’ve got to read the whole thing over again. This book is so good it caused my relationship some trouble;) I was up late reading it and getting all worked up and cursing about it because it was so good. This caused problems because someone wanted to sleep. How dare he, right?!

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone, as well as her other book The Secret History which was another AMAZING book.

OK, so I finished this book a few days ago, and man! it’s an amazing book. I can’t say enough about it. Gutwrenching, frustrating, empowering… Such wonderful themes and pictures are drawn by Amy Tan’s writing. I STRONGLY suggest that you read this book.

I’m sorry that I haven’t posted in so long, but I have no way to download images from my camera until I buy a new card reader! Can’t wait. Ug!

This link will take you to the Joseph Campbell Foundation. I have read Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, and a book of lectures that he has given. After seeing the Power of Myth on television I was struck dumb by what I was hearing. The ideas struck such a chord that I could not divert my focus from what I was experiencing. I feel a sense of loss that I will not be able to attend a lecture or see him in person, but I plan to learn as much as I can from his works.

Prof. Stuart Wheeler, Department of Classical Studies, University of Richmond:
“It is interesting how George Lucas claimed that he actually went back in the second draft of Star Wars to make it more like the archtypical myth laid out in Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces. Using Campbell’s outline as a guide, return to Star Wars and outline the direct parallels between the archetype and the film.”