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On The Origin Of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, And Fiction (2009)

by Brian Boyd(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0674033574 (ISBN13: 9780674033573)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Belknap Press

review 1: If you've read the Selfish Gene or otherwise have some understanding of natural selection, you can probably guess with rather good accuracy at the main lines of argument of this book. Which isn't to say that it's bad at all, just that I found the writing a little bit too leisurely (which is to say, I spent too much time in engineering school. the writing is good.)But if you haven't read the selfish gene or anything else on natural selection, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND READING THIS, because the author does a good job of explaining natural selection and many many common misconceptions of it.
review 2: This book is a slow read for me. I mean slow in the sense that I pick it up and put it down in the casual wandering that one has when a book causes the reader to stop... more and think. I have read a lot of books over the years, and I have read quite a few books on the craft of writing. What I like particularly about this book is that it explores our human need of story on a neurological and cognitive level for, as the author early on expresses, an evolutionary explanation for fiction. less

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