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A Short History Of Myth

By: Karen Armstrong
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
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We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.'©2005 Karen Armstrong Anthropology Customs & Traditions Social Sciences Tradition Mythology
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Remarkable for its compressions, brevity and range, this book gives an account of myth from 20,000 years ago.
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Karen Armstrong is a fantastic writer. Her ideas are fantastic and she makes is really easy to engage with science, history, religion etc

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Okay as a quick summary of mythology, but the narrator sounds robotic or AI generated.

OK book, terrible narration

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This is such an interesting book but read in a dry flat voice that doesn't do it justice at all .

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