I think I’ve mentioned before in this Tohu Bohu that most states produce a list of Good Children’s Books each year. Well, the libraries and schools in the states produce the list. For a few years, I’ve taken recommendations from my state’s list, if only because it’s a list of books the library is bound to have a bunch of copies of, usually in a separate display. The last couple of years, my state list is The Nutmeg Award, and they’ve done a nice job of bringing some good books to my attention. Yes, The Seven Professors of the Far North had been recommended to me, but I had forgotten all about it until I saw the book on the Nutmeg shelf. And, as it happens, Lightning Thief had been recommended to me as well, but I had put the little note I made of the recommendation aside, and the name didn’t ring any bells, so I didn’t remember the recommendation until after I had read the book and—here’s the key part—recommended it to the person who had recommended it to me in the first place. Frankly, it’s less embarrassing to just get the titles on-line.
The reason I recommended it was because I enjoyed the thing a lot. Rick Riordan (who evidently writes grupp mysteries, which perhaps I’ll check out) did a good job with a very old (not to say trite) idea of Updating the Olympians. The plot is exciting, mostly, although there is the Obvious Thing You Aren’t Supposed to Have Guessed. The characters are quite good, particularly the female sidekick, who I was afraid was going to be awful. Unusually, I expect I’ll enjoy the second one at least as much as I enjoyed the first, because I found the world-creation a bit tiresome, just because I have seen it before. The meat of the thing worked very well, and I hope that the second one (which is out, and the third is out this spring) skips straight to that.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.
i hate that book
this book is amazing
I gotta say, I think of these two as coming from the same person. You know, three-four months later, Anonymous has come around on the book, and goes back to all the comments he (or she, but somehow I’m thinking he) wrote at the end of the summer slagging off the book and adding a new comment with the new point of view.
OK, probably not. But it makes a better story.
Thanks,
-V.
FOR THE MOVIE ITS SO DUMB! pERCY IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE 12 NOT 14 OR 16!!!! AND ANNABETH IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BLOUNDE CURLY HAIR NOT BROWN AND STRAIGHT HAIR!!!!!!!!!!! THATS WHY I HATE THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!