2010-08-07T15:47:02-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/plots/ http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/the-seven-basic-plots.php 2010-08-07T15:47:02-05:00 Readers of Middlemarch by George Eliot may recall the dry old scholar Rev Casaubon’s failed attempt to create a unifying ‘Key to all Mythologies’. (You may have briefly felt in passing, that Casaubon’s plan was irrelevant and futile.) But Booker has succeeded in doing this and much more – a quite remarkable analysis of the nature of story, in a project which took him 34 years. But do not be misled into thinking that this is a sterile academic book – it is highly readable! And for its 700 pages, remarkably cheap.