I'd heard of this book for years, going back to its associations with George Lucas and Star Wars, but never got around to reading it before now. It's an interesting book at times, and definitely has some valuable things to say on the nature of mythology.

Where it falls down is when it attempts to combine "modern" psychology, psychoanalysis, and dream interpretation to mythology. If these sections had been excised the overall work would have been much improved.

I'm glad I read it. The references to various myths from around the world were interesting enough even without the accompanying analysis.