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There are some who are best at showing, and some that are best at telling. Karen Armstrong is best at telling. I really appreciate her lucid, straightforward narrative here, in such a huge, swimming subject. She rarely ever oversimplifies. It's like a little guidebook to western culture, and it often got me thinking about similarities between the role of myth and the role of art; I was a little surprised to see them converge so smartly at the end. The ending is more determined than I'd like it to be, and there are so many examples that could more complexly illustrate her points... but there will always be more to say, and ways to describe it. I've read a few of the re-shown myths in this series, and thus far this re-telling has been the most meaningful to me.