Post by Bannanachair on Apr 30, 2018 11:38:02 GMT -4
Someone I know in real life told me that there are a bunch of new Percy Jackson books that were written and so I looked it up. I vividly remember reading the five-book series as a kid, and being given a copy of the labyrinth one for my 8th birthday by a teacher (though now that I googled the publication date maybe it was my 9th birthday, as it came out after my 8th) and then I remember buying and reading the one where all of Manhattan was basically empty and the Empire State Building was being besieged or something like that. I don't really remember it very well due to how long ago it was, but I remember it having a pretty satisfying conclusion that tied up all the loose ends.
Now apparently there's like twenty more of those books, including stuff about the Egyptian gods and the Norse gods. The third book in the pentology starring Apollo (I think) is going to be released tomorrow, apparently. What the actual fuck is going on. The first book came out when I was five, and I was too young to read it then. I was too old for the book series by around twelve (not too old to enjoy it, but too old for it to be "my level" of reading - I was onto the Wheel of Time by then, give or take a year). That means that there are people who weren't even born when the first book came out that are now smugly considering themselves above such "kiddie reading". There seems to be three possibilities:
1: Rick Riordan is writing the books to become more mature and complex as time goes on so that kids who were around the appropriate age to be reading the Lightning Thief when that first came out are now able to enjoy the mature complexities of the new books. I find this to be highly unlikely, but maybe it's the case. It would make marketing the series really weird, though, and would make it hard for anyone to really get into the series: Either they're too old for the first couple of books or they're too young for the last handful.
2: Rick Riordan is shamelessly cashing in on the nostalgia of bookish nerds who haven't grown out of their Camp Half Blood phase. I remember all those crappy Camp Half Blood RPs on ROBLOX way back in the day and I've seen plenty of adult Harry Potter fans, so this one honestly wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. It's sad and hopefully not the case, but it wouldn't surprise me.
3: Rick Riordan is a bloody good writer for his targeted demographic and is managing to convince eight-year-old kids to read a 20-book fantasy series that's actually a bunch of different series with a complicated continuity and an even more complicated internal mythology largely based on various world mythologies but managing to be it's own separate and unique thing by itself. If this one is the case, then holy shit, he is a great person and a great writer and deserves all of my kudos, and I hope that he'll keep writing for years to come so that when our generation starts having too much unprotected sex and making kids they'll get to read the great experience that is Percy Jackson and all the other stuff added on.
Does anyone have any idea if his post-Last Olympian books are any good? Percy Jackson was one of several series that got me into fantasy when I was young, and with this revelation I'm curious as to what it's like now. Maybe I'll reread it when the current pentology concludes, and then just read the rest of his stuff in order of publication.
Now apparently there's like twenty more of those books, including stuff about the Egyptian gods and the Norse gods. The third book in the pentology starring Apollo (I think) is going to be released tomorrow, apparently. What the actual fuck is going on. The first book came out when I was five, and I was too young to read it then. I was too old for the book series by around twelve (not too old to enjoy it, but too old for it to be "my level" of reading - I was onto the Wheel of Time by then, give or take a year). That means that there are people who weren't even born when the first book came out that are now smugly considering themselves above such "kiddie reading". There seems to be three possibilities:
1: Rick Riordan is writing the books to become more mature and complex as time goes on so that kids who were around the appropriate age to be reading the Lightning Thief when that first came out are now able to enjoy the mature complexities of the new books. I find this to be highly unlikely, but maybe it's the case. It would make marketing the series really weird, though, and would make it hard for anyone to really get into the series: Either they're too old for the first couple of books or they're too young for the last handful.
2: Rick Riordan is shamelessly cashing in on the nostalgia of bookish nerds who haven't grown out of their Camp Half Blood phase. I remember all those crappy Camp Half Blood RPs on ROBLOX way back in the day and I've seen plenty of adult Harry Potter fans, so this one honestly wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. It's sad and hopefully not the case, but it wouldn't surprise me.
3: Rick Riordan is a bloody good writer for his targeted demographic and is managing to convince eight-year-old kids to read a 20-book fantasy series that's actually a bunch of different series with a complicated continuity and an even more complicated internal mythology largely based on various world mythologies but managing to be it's own separate and unique thing by itself. If this one is the case, then holy shit, he is a great person and a great writer and deserves all of my kudos, and I hope that he'll keep writing for years to come so that when our generation starts having too much unprotected sex and making kids they'll get to read the great experience that is Percy Jackson and all the other stuff added on.
Does anyone have any idea if his post-Last Olympian books are any good? Percy Jackson was one of several series that got me into fantasy when I was young, and with this revelation I'm curious as to what it's like now. Maybe I'll reread it when the current pentology concludes, and then just read the rest of his stuff in order of publication.
