Percy Jackson and The Olmpians by Rick Riodran

Does anyone else like these books as much as I do if so post here please. They are really good modern day Greek Myth books
go here for more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson_%26_The_Olympians#The_Lightning_Thief

They are really good books. I love reading them, and Rick Riordan was an amazing author for these books, even if it was his first books for "kids."

The last book is being released on May 5, in case anyone was interested.

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I love these books!:) Finished with the third book recently. Pretty good books for mythology fanatics.

They're for kids. We're kids aren't we?:)

I loved this series. It is actually the series that got me into writing. I always loved mythology, and this showed me I could make more modern ones, that when I got into writing stories. My first attempts at books were Percy Jackson fanfic like books. But they never stayed the same to long, I always changed them. Eventually the whole plot changed for it and that changed and changed and changed and changed into my current project.

I love the Percy Jackson books. They have a countdown till the release of the last book. As of right now, it is about 50 days, and 15 hours till it's released.

http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com/
That's the link. If you wait for a while, the timer will appear.

I LOVE Percy Jackson and the Olympians! Book 5 comes out March 5th and I can't WAIT!!!! I need to reread the first four to refresh my memory...

Oh my gosh! I love the series so far! I cannot wait for the fifth! So soon, but so far away. I'm excited for it.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is such a great series. I can't wait for May when the fifth book finally comes out. It is so good.

I have the first, the second, the third, the fourth, and the fifth book... and the Demigod Files. I love those books...

These books make me want to hurt people.

He totally screwed up his mythology, mixes traditional and Latinized spellings, and the writing was just corny.

But it was mostly the mythology-massacring that made me angry.

If you want mythology, read Ovid.

--Antigone

I love these books. I have read up to the battle in the labrinth haha. The library didn't have the last one.

Antigone Cadmus wrote:These books make me want to hurt people.

He totally screwed up his mythology, mixes traditional and Latinized spellings, and the writing was just corny.

But it was mostly the mythology-massacring that made me angry.

If you want mythology, read Ovid.

--Antigone

I agree that he did mess with some of the mythology and some things were pretty corny. But I still love these books because of it's plot. I found the plot twists to be particularly good because I didn't predict them.

My Issues with these books are in the spoiler:
[spoiler]Percy and Annabeth just didn't seem to go together that well. Actually I didn't like Annabeth, she was cool at first but then she got annoying. I mean come on I know the girls fatal flaw is Pride but does she really have to be that rude to people. I also disagree with Cerberus being a three headed Rottweiler. That was just a no with me, Cerberus is supposed to be terrifying and not look like Fluffy from the first HP movie[/spoiler]

And that's my rant, I still love the book for it's plot. I'm such a critic when comes to relatively popular books. I always need to analize my bestsellers to see why they're best sellers.

When I started reading it I didn't know much about Greek Mythology haha. So when I was looking for information I saw that he misspelled Cronos the whole time. I was like what the crap.

No, Kronos is the correct GREEK spelling.
The problem is, Athena is a Latin/English-tized spelling. If he wanted all of his names to seem Greek, he would have called Athena Pallas Athene, and so on.
Also, it's a big no-no for Athena to have children. I don't care if Annabeth is some super mind-meld child, Athena's a virgin in mythology -- she doesn't want kids.

/rant

Everywhere I had looked it was with a C but oh well.