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Well, I've started reading the books.
Now, I'm not saying I won't wind up liking them. There are far too many of my friends who like them for them to be utter shite.

I'm only 30 pages in, but all I can think so far is a mental image of the faceless author, hollering in my face "Exposition! Exposition! EXPOSITION! DID YOU GET ALL THAT EXPOSITION, YET? WHAT ABOUT THE CLUMSY ACTION SCENE? IT'S, LIKE, WEIRD, RIGHT?"

Also "We were studying this weird event and that in school, as it is the only thing I'm mentioning in a "months of school" montage, do you tink dis might be impoahtent later on? And wheelchaired teacher (who most certainly isn't our Giles figure. No way.) bringing.. weapons (that can handily transform into bic pens and historical artifacts to school and.... "You MUST learn about Greek mytholgy in my latin class !"(wait, wut?). Excuse me while I face palm.

Mind you, I like the humour.

And, please: nobody pledge the "but it's a kid's book" defense. This shit is clumsy as hell, sorry.
I'm back to reading. I'll give this the whole first book to convince me rather than my standard 100 pages.
  • Mood: Torment
  • Listening to: Arcade Fire
  • Reading: Percy Jackson, Never let me go, One of our thursda
  • Watching: The King's Speech
  • Playing: "find the life"....
  • Eating: Bread and Butter - it's teh shit
  • Drinking: Starbux Starbux and then some Starbux
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:icondesarasoleil:
Ahh, that's the word to describe it. Clumsy. Personally, I believe that was the writer's attempt to make the writing seem as first person as possible. Seeing as Percy is a preteen boy who does not excel at school and has ADHD, the result was, indeed, clumsy. That doesn't change much in the series, but the content itself I think will completely make up for that. How are you enjoying it so far now?
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:iconninnytreetops:
~NinnyTreetops Mar 28, 2011  Professional Artist
I've diverted over to "Never let me go" (which, btw: clueless protagonist, this is how you do it), but I'll go back to PJ once I'm done with it.

I genuinely believe the PJ author is just a bad writer. I've read many (many. manymnanymany) a book with a clueless/handicapped/daft/impaired narrator, which is when a good author will show. This? No. lazy. At least the first 30 pages XD
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:icondesarasoleil:
Never Let Me Go... have to put that on the list...

lol So I'm guessing it didn't hold your attention for too long. I suppose it's my total obsession with Greek mythology, which the series helped me nurture, that has made me totally oblivious or in denial to the writing flaws. :shrug: Go figure.

I'm rather curious, did you ever get to finishing it? :giggle:
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:iconmairelyn:
i'm curious (and whichever answer hold no slight against you since, to each their own)

but... have you ever read a book and liked it, Even if the writing wasn't excellent/was clumsy, lazy,etc


or it always has to be excellent?
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:iconninnytreetops:
~NinnyTreetops Apr 6, 2011  Professional Artist
The writing does not have to be excellent but it has to be good, fuck: bearable at the least. But liking a book inspite of bad writing would be like liking food that's burned and awful, just because I like one ingredient. If you can't write you're not a good author, so why should I waste my time reading your... bad writing?
:)
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:iconmairelyn:
so is percy jackson at least bearable?
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:iconofficial-mugwump:
I'm reading them for the first time too, and at first I wasn't a big fan, but as the books go along there are some really well-done things. I won't spoil it, but there's a few things that literally make up for everything I don't like. Whatever you do, don't watch the movie though. It's horrible!
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:iconshpout:
i totally agree, the writing is pretty terrible, the plot and idea and characters though are pretty neat and are the only reason why I stuck with the book. I m sorry to tell you though, the writing doesnt get much better until the last book....
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:iconcrazywave:
I really like the clumsy. It is from percy's view, and as you might be able to tell, he's not the most observant of people. I also was confused by the greek history in latin bit.
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:iconcheeseandchocolate:
Dunno about the books as I've only seen the movie :) But, wanted to say in defence of the greek-mythology-in-latin thing that lots of schools teach Classics in general with Latin. Mine did :)
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