Hopkins the Bonk Legged

When I watched  trailers for Avatar, one blockbusters trailer caused me to shake and pass a droplet of wee in excitment.

I saw a trailer of a Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief,  not since Clash of the Titans where Harry Hamlin fought Morph’s ugly brothers has my Geeky childhood obsession of Greek Mythology made to the silver screen.

Being a bit of a bookworm I have to make sure I read the book before the film comes out, I ordered Percy Jackson: Lighting Thief / Sea of Monsters / Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) from Amazon with the intention of boring my daughter. How wrong I was. One of the best things to do as a parent is reading a scary story to the kids (within reason).  The first page of the book is probably one of the most gripping first page of a book I have read.The rest of the story didn’t let us down. In my honest opinion it supercedes the Harry Potter Series in terms of storytelling and excitment, it links into the classical stories of greek mythology which authors have been trying to emulate for 3000 years.

I took my daughter and her friend to see the film and was dissapointed in the way that Hollywood can take a a cracking source and balls it up. I understand that alot of stuff has to be cut away but why cut away the the creepilyy atmospheric rise of the Titan which gave the book a backbone and left the story open for numerous sequels.

Ahh well, I shouldn’t be suprised really.

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