{"id":13427,"date":"2010-11-19T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/19\/13427.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:06","slug":"book-report-the-last-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/19\/book-report-the-last-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Last Olympian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger had eventually read the second-to-last in the Percy Jackson series (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/10\/31\/11589.html\">Battle of the Labyrinth<\/a>), and for some reason was just not very keen on reading the last one. I&#8217;m not sure why. Perhaps I was waiting for it to come out in paperback. Which took a while. In the meantime, my Perfect Non-Reader had become a fan of the series (refused to see the movie, though&#8212;she has had Bad Experiences with movies made from favorite books) and her grandmother gave her <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/books\/last-olympian-the-1423101472\">The Last Olympian<\/a> in hardback. Then she read it a hundred and fifty times in a row, so I left her to it.\n<p>Eventually, though, I pried it out of her hands and read it. Well, more accurately, I picked it up out of the chair she left it in&#8212;<i>again<\/i>&#8212;and decided to read it before she figured out where it was. I enjoyed it enough&#8212;Rick Riordan throws in plenty of action and a smidge of character development and quite a bit of reference to the Greek Mythology he is starting from.\n<P>I haven&#8217;t felt the slightest interesting in rereading the series from scratch, which is my usual response to finishing a five-book series that I quite like. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m just not that into Percy Jackson, or because there is another related (Roman) series, as well as an unrelated but evidently similar (Egyptian) series, or because I would have to find where my Perfect Non-Reader left all my copies.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger finishes the Percy Jackson series at last, only to discover I am again two books behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19219,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions\/19219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}