Friday, September 9, 2011

Let's see about the Percy Jackson series.

Series title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Author's name: Rick Riordan

Okay. This series is totally about Greek Myths. So before you start reading it, just brush up on 'em. There are five books in the series. They are:
  • The Lightning Thief
  • The Sea Of Monsters
  • The Titan's Curse
  • The Battle of the Labyrinth
  • The Last Olympian
THE LIGHTNING THIEF:
The series revolves around a boy known as Percy Jackson. He suffers from ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), Dyslexia and many other Attention Disorders. He suffers a lot in school. Except for Grover Underwood, he is friendless. His mom Sally Jackson has married a man named Gabe Ugliano, who is a nasty old drunk, for Percy's sake. He doesn't know who his dad is. Whenever he brings up the topic with his mother, she consoles him saying,"All will be known one day."

All this changes one day. Perce overhears Mr. Brunner(who is handicapped by the way), his latin techer, and Grover having a conversation about him. He hears some thing about 'Kindly Ones'. The next day, they go to a museum. There he has a fight with one of the class bullies and pushes her into the water fountain. Their substitute Maths teacher takes Percy away to be punished. When they are alone, she tells him to give it to her. He doesn't understand what she's talking about. Suddenly, she turns into a winged monster. Mr. Brunner suddenly comes in with his wheelchair and throws him a pen. But it turns into a sword and Percy kills her. 

Later on, nobody has any memory of that teacher. This doesn't include Grover and Percy. Grover doesn't meet P's eyes whenever they are talking about it. After the children return home after Term Break, Sally and Grover take Percy to a camp. On the way, Sally tries to explain to him who his father really is. But he doesn't understand. When they try to enter the camp'a arch, a Greek creature(the Minotaur), comes and attacks them. It kills his mother and then tries to kill him. But he somehow finishes it off and passes out. 

After he wakes up, he learns that he is a Demigod(child of a Greek God and a Human) and he is a camp for Demigods-Camp Half Blood. He also comes to know that Grover is a Satyr. Mr. Brunner is actually the legendary Centaur-Chiron. Chiron tells him that Zeus' Lightning Bolt has been stolen by somebody and that is the thing the monster had demanded from him. He wants to find out who has stolen it.

Does he find out who is father is? Does he figure out who has stolen the Bolt? Read the book to find out.       

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