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Okay, anyone else looove the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series? If you haven't read it, you, like, have to. Its UH-MAZING! To those of you Cricket readers that have read it, don't you think that the movie that they made of the first book doesn't really go with the book? I mean, the thing about the pearls only is in the book for a tiny bit. It's insane. I think that the first one is soo unlike the books that they're not going to be able to make the second one work. Don't u agree?
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(June 15, 2011 - 4:49 pm)
(June 15, 2011 - 4:49 pm)
I know! They killed the book in the movie! I'm mad at those movie people.
(June 15, 2011 - 5:37 pm)
Yes I have the read the books and I do agree with you on the movie. I do really like the books. Have you read the next series Heroes Of Olympus?
(June 15, 2011 - 8:42 pm)
They seem to do that to a lot of movies. I didn't understand why they made Percy about 15 or 16. That way even if they wanted to make another movie they couldn't.
(June 16, 2011 - 12:48 pm)
I love the series and I'm rereading it at the moment (and reading Jane Eyre; multi-tasking!). I love the books and I'm planning to take the movie out of our local library, too, but from what I've heard they really messed it up. They can't go far with Percy already fifteen or sixteen. By the last book he'll already be thirty or something! Annabeth with brown hair (that's what I've heard). I must see for myself if it's good. Basically, the movie people mess up some pretty good books. I think KIDS who connect with the book more should direct the movie! :) That would be fun!
@Lizzy- The Heroes of Olympus. Does that have to do with the prophecy from the last book at all or is it something totally without Camp Half-Blood and such?
(June 21, 2011 - 8:59 am)
That is what the series is about. It's really really good, except there is only one book out at the moment.
(July 2, 2011 - 11:52 am)
Oh cool! I must read it!
(July 3, 2011 - 7:51 am)
@Elizabeth M: Heroes of Olympus is set a couple years after The Last Olympian, and it's about a new band of half bloods. In the first one, Percy and Annabeth and all them are more secondary/minor characters, but I think they will become more important to the story line in #2, seeing as the name is Son of Neptune, which probably means Percy.
(July 3, 2011 - 11:51 am)
Oh cool! I have to read that. Is it written in a first person perspective?
(July 3, 2011 - 1:20 pm)
No, it's written in 3rd person, but since there are a few main characters, it rotates between them. Each chapter is mostly about a different one of the 3 kids. It is such a great book.
(July 3, 2011 - 2:15 pm)
@Kim A: I hope this doesn't sound rude, but since Percy and Annabeth are still 16 I think it's six months after the Last Olympian not two years.
(July 3, 2011 - 3:19 pm)
I haven't seen the movie yet, but my friends have told me that it's totally messed up. I hate it when people kill a book by making a movie out of it! The only movie I've seen that was better than the book was How To Train Your Dragon. I saw the movie first, then my sister got the book and I read a little of it. The book was awful! It's really rare that something like that happens, though.
(July 3, 2011 - 1:37 pm)
@Alexandra- Very, very rare! The LotR movie is as amazing as the book, though I read the book a long time ago so I don't remember much! I can think of way too many messed up movies. Wizard of Oz is also better than the book *yawn*.
(July 4, 2011 - 10:31 am)
The LotR movies are amazing, but not as amazing as the books. They were as amazing as they could be within a reasonable amount of time, though!
(July 4, 2011 - 6:44 pm)
Agreed. Those movies are as good as an adaptation of those books could conceivably be, but they did leave some things to be desired. *is a fan of Tom Bombadil* (among other things)
(July 5, 2011 - 4:18 am)
@ZNZ- Did you have your birthday recently because I remember you as thirteen...
(July 6, 2011 - 10:23 am)