Sunday, April 26, 2009

I HATE WAITING!!!!

I AM REALLY STARTING TO GET ANNOYED OF WAITING FOR THE 5TH PERCY JACKSON BOOK TO COME OUT!!! IT COMES OUT MAY 5 WHICH IS LIKE 2 WEEKS FROM NOW!!! THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTIONS THAT I WANT ANSWERED AND I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Done the Lightning Thief

I finished the Lightning Thief!!! Here is a brief summary of what happenned.

So Percy is at Camp Half-Blood and he finds out that his dad is Poseidon. He also discovers that his dad is being blamed for the theft of Zeus's symbol of power, the master bolt. Percy sets off on a quest to prove his father's innocence and to find the master bolt. On the way he encounters many monsters and after finally reaching the underworld (they beleive that Hades has the bolt), they discover that Hades's helm of darkness is missing and that he thinks that Percy took the bolt and his helm. Percy disovers that the bolt is indeed in his possession and that Ares tricked him into taking it. They escape the underworld and find out that Ares took the helm of darkness. Percy battles Ares, defeats him, and returns the helm. He then go to Olympus and returns the master bolt. He returns to camp-half and is betrayed by Luke who tries to kill him.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Now I'm reading The Lightning Thief again...

For the movie trailer project, my group is doing the Lightning Theif and I have the job of rereading the book and tell them all the details. So don't expect anything on Philip Pullman's books because from now on, until I start Reading my next book, it will be Rick Riordan.

Here is What I have read so far...

Percy Jackson, the main character who has ADHD and dyslexia, is on a school field trip at the Metropolitian Mesuem of art in NYC. Everything goes wrong when he "pushes" this bully and is asked to come with an evil teacher called Mrs. Dodds. He follows her all the way to an empty hall where she transforms into a monster and tries to kill him. Percy's latin teacher Mr. brunner comes and hands him a sword which he uses to kill her. Later everyone claims that Mrs. Dodds doesn't exist. At the end of the school year, Percy ditches grover and goes home to his mom. They leave on a trip to a beach and in the middle of the night, Grover comes and warns them that there is something following him. The three of them hop in the car and drive towards Camp Half-Blood. In the car, Percy realizes that grover is a Satyr. The car rolls over into a ditch and the minotaur comes. The minotaur grabs Percy's mother and she vanishes. The angry Percy who believes that his mother is dead kills the Minotaur with its own horn. He then stumbles down the hill with an unconscious Grover and into the Camp. He is nursed back to help by Annabeth Chase who will become the third main character in the book. When Percy awakes, he is introduced to the fact that the Greek gods still exist and goes out to explore Camp Half Blood.





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Finally Finished

Im finally finished The Amber Spyglass and here is how it went. So Lyra and Will manage to free the dead. They must go to another world to get there daemons/souls back and unfortunately, there is currently a huge battle between Lord Asriel forces and Metatron's (god's regent) forces. They manage to get there way through the battle and retrieve their damons. However in the process they "kill" god. God, or the authority, is kept inside a crystal cage. Lyra and Will set him free not knowing that he was god. When he came out of the cage he dissolved into the wind.

They travel to the mulefa's world now and meet Mary Malone who is currently trying to stop the dust (particles that are supposed to make everything good) from leaving the world. When Will and Lyra fall in love, this problem is solved because the dust settles around them and stop escaping. However Will and Lyra find out that they cannot stay together because everyone time the open a window to another world, dust is lost. In the end they seperate and go back to each other's world.



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