By Thomas B.
Jonathan Gottschall's The Storytelling Animal is one of the stranger books I've read. In the book Jonathan talks about how real life events can be compared to stories and how we are always creating stories. His belief in the story is that everything we see, hear, feel, dream, and experience is a story. Every single moment we live is all apart of the grand story we call our life. Jonathan focusing on the reality of dreaming, we are always dreaming which means we are always creating a new story layered on top of the story we are always living.
The Storytelling Animal is a book on the craft of writing, aimed to improve the reader's writing skill in one way or another. I really did not learn anything from this book. The whole time he was just talking about stories and focusing on the fact we always live in a story. The book as a whole is a strange concept.
I could see how someone could appreciate this book depending on how you look at it when opening it up for the first time. When I opened the book for the first time I was expecting to learn something about writing, maybe pick up a few simple tips here and there. Maybe that's my fault and I picked the wrong the book.
In conclusion, I would not recommend this book as a tool to aid your writing. I believe the book is written well and is an extremely interesting read. It can get confusing and over complicated in some parts but if taken slow this could be a good book.
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