Keep the Lightning...No one cares anymore

No I know that isn't true. EVERYONE seems to care about Percy Jackson and his adventures with gods and godlings and bloods and half-bloods and Crips and whoever and whatever. Percy is hot. The movie based on the book The Lightning Thief comes out this Friday and schools, movies and bookstores are planning all kinds of events to celebrate it.

I loved this book in the beginning. I couldn't stop reading it the first night, but about 100 pages into it I thought this needs some serious editing.

I have heard that the second one is better, so I will read it, and I probably will see the movie. Maybe I don't dislike the book as much as I thought...I just really think that it tries to hard to be Harry Potter-like. And of course, I don't like anything Harry Potter-like! I enjoy the parts of the book that aren't Harry Potter-ish. Like the funny chapter titles like

I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher and A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers. I like that use of humor. Harry Potter is just blah blah blah typical Keeping Up Appearances-ish-BBC-pretense-garbage are far as humor goes. But Percy is actually funny. We all know Harry is just a rip of Wizards Hall and Percy might be trying to be Harry, but I guess what I want to say is, FORGET HARRY! Just be Percy. Deep inside Percy is way cooler and the premise is way better (and more original than Rowling's RIP-OFF of Jane Yolen's work). So Percy, just be yourself!