All in all I enjoyed reading The Truth About Stories. Particularly, I found King's style to be different and interesting. The beginning of each chapter begins with "There is a story I know. I've heard this story many times, and each time someone tells the story, it changes..." At the end of each chapter, King closes it with "But don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now." I found this to add a special flair to the book. It added structure and also reinforced King's message regarding the importance of stories connecting individuals to eachother and the world. Throughout the story, the idea that despite changes in detail, the messages of stories remain steadfast. As King points out, changing of details (the setting of the story etc) is part of the art story-telling. The book points to the fact that perhaps society is too concerned with exact details rather than the message of a story. Also, it dealt with the idea of the move to the afterward - oral (private) stories becoming written (public). The comparison of the two creation stories was interesting. As King explains, the fact that the Christian creation story is made sacred, the "Charm" story explanation is made less believable. King's narrative is quite interesting. Having read little about natives and their story telling, I enjoyed it.