Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief book review

[alobear]

I decided to get the book of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, to see how far it differed from the film.  The answer is, really not very much at all.  Percy is younger in the book, there's a bit more padding around the story, a few more characters that didn't make it onto the big screen, and a slight change in the identity of the overall bad guy.  Other than that (all things you'd expect from a book to film adaptation), it's been transferred pretty much wholesale.

I would say the book was slightly better than the film - more depth of charater and more of an arc of development - but not by much.  It was a quick, entertaining read, but I don't think I'll be getting any more in the series.

Comments

[prunesquallormd.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I sort of fancy these, actually. The film was rather fun, and I've been meaning to check out the books for a while. To my shame, while I'm haven't got around to that yet, I may have read some rather fun Percy Jackson smut (*blush*. It's not my fault, ok. I was jumped by Rule 34 :D).

[alobear.livejournal.com]

Well, you're welcome to my copy of the first in the series - I'm not going to read it again.

I warn you, though - he's only 12 in the books! :o)

[prunesquallormd.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that'd be cool. Thanks :)

(12? D:.
LOL In my defence, anything else I may have read has the characters considerably older than that!)