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Good choice for the story-telling quality you said you prefer. For symbolism try a good symbol dictionary like The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (among others), or for specific Rider-Waite-Smith Major Arcana symbolism, the Paul Foster Case's The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, or Rachel Pollack's 78 Degrees of Wisdom.I also like the idea of tarot tells the tale...it sounds fun and I plan on ordering that.