Book 3!
I finished book 3 at almost 3 am last night--er, this morning, I should say.
Book 3: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan (Book 1 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series)
So I've been meaning to read this book since I first heard about it, but I never got around to actually doing it. I read other things and just kind of forgot about wanting to see what the story was about until a few months ago when I went to see The Lovely Bones, there was a trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. It looked pretty good, and it renewed my interest in reading the book, so when I got home and put some books on hold at the library, I squeezed this one in.
I'd wanted to read this because I've always loved mythology and stories of heroes and the gods on Mount Olympus. This piqued my interest, but it wasn't until I read it that I discovered that there were many more, and much more detailed aspects about the mythology included.
The book is the first of a series about a boy named Percy Jackson. For years, he has been moved around different private schools, getting expelled at each one. This year, he is twelve, and is attending the Yancy School, in Upstate NY. The story opens with a class trip to a museum, where the class bully gets Percy into trouble, and he is taken into another room of the museum to get punished by the cranky old math teacher. However, things get strange when the teacher reveals herself to be a Fury, a mythological being created to punish evil-doers, and attacks. Suddenly, Percy's Latin teacher bursts into the room, throws him a pen, and tells him to defend himself. The pen transforms into a sword, and Percy slays the Fury, who bursts into dust.
Although, mysteriously, nobody at the school even remembers the Fury/math teacher being at the school, life goes back to normal until Percy goes home for summer vacation. His stepfather is a really nasty guy who treats his mom like crap--oh, did I mention that Percy doesn't know who is father is?--and sits around playing poker all day. Percy's mom surprises him with a trip to the beach, but on their way, they are attacked by the Minotaur, another mythological being. Percy is able to escape to safety, and defeats the creature, but loses his mother in the process. When the Minotaur is finally dead, Percy collapses, and wakes up at Camp Half-blood Hill--a summer camp created especially for kids like him, who are the children of a mortal creature and a god or goddess.
Thus begins Percy's adventures into the modern world of mythology, where the gods and goddesses of Olympus are still alive and kicking, and their children are heroes who attend a demi-god summer camp over vacation and live everyday lives during the school year. Among the great points in this story are a quest, a missing lightning bolt, a trio of godly brothers trying to start a war, and a once-powerful Titan trying to regain the strength to return to the Earth. It's full of action and intrigue, and a surprising amount of mythological facts, no oxymoron intended. :)
Book 3: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan (Book 1 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series)
So I've been meaning to read this book since I first heard about it, but I never got around to actually doing it. I read other things and just kind of forgot about wanting to see what the story was about until a few months ago when I went to see The Lovely Bones, there was a trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. It looked pretty good, and it renewed my interest in reading the book, so when I got home and put some books on hold at the library, I squeezed this one in.
I'd wanted to read this because I've always loved mythology and stories of heroes and the gods on Mount Olympus. This piqued my interest, but it wasn't until I read it that I discovered that there were many more, and much more detailed aspects about the mythology included.
The book is the first of a series about a boy named Percy Jackson. For years, he has been moved around different private schools, getting expelled at each one. This year, he is twelve, and is attending the Yancy School, in Upstate NY. The story opens with a class trip to a museum, where the class bully gets Percy into trouble, and he is taken into another room of the museum to get punished by the cranky old math teacher. However, things get strange when the teacher reveals herself to be a Fury, a mythological being created to punish evil-doers, and attacks. Suddenly, Percy's Latin teacher bursts into the room, throws him a pen, and tells him to defend himself. The pen transforms into a sword, and Percy slays the Fury, who bursts into dust.
Although, mysteriously, nobody at the school even remembers the Fury/math teacher being at the school, life goes back to normal until Percy goes home for summer vacation. His stepfather is a really nasty guy who treats his mom like crap--oh, did I mention that Percy doesn't know who is father is?--and sits around playing poker all day. Percy's mom surprises him with a trip to the beach, but on their way, they are attacked by the Minotaur, another mythological being. Percy is able to escape to safety, and defeats the creature, but loses his mother in the process. When the Minotaur is finally dead, Percy collapses, and wakes up at Camp Half-blood Hill--a summer camp created especially for kids like him, who are the children of a mortal creature and a god or goddess.
Thus begins Percy's adventures into the modern world of mythology, where the gods and goddesses of Olympus are still alive and kicking, and their children are heroes who attend a demi-god summer camp over vacation and live everyday lives during the school year. Among the great points in this story are a quest, a missing lightning bolt, a trio of godly brothers trying to start a war, and a once-powerful Titan trying to regain the strength to return to the Earth. It's full of action and intrigue, and a surprising amount of mythological facts, no oxymoron intended. :)