It's a good book series if you were into the Harry Potter stuff. Great story and keeps your interested.

The movie however was horrible. Seriously, if you read the books and you want to see the movie, don't. It will do nothing but let you down.


Also, I know this is the type of movie and books that are easy to hate on...I get it...I'm just telling this stuff to the people who are interested...I know several people read the books and were excited about seeing the movie.

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2/17/2010 1:05:33 PM

I try not to see movies that are in the format of "_____ and the _____ : ______"

2/17/2010 1:10:10 PM

thanks for the book recommendation

2/17/2010 3:09:46 PM

saw the movie with my gf (neither of us have read the books)

I thought the movie was extremely childish and goofy...she thought it was cute

2/17/2010 3:17:15 PM

what is this I don't even

2/17/2010 4:00:28 PM

The main problem with a transcendent children's book is that it inspires adults to try and find other transcendent children's books instead of diving deeper into adult literature.

With that said, I support reading of any sort.

2/17/2010 4:21:37 PM

yeah if this is your reading list and you're old enough to rent a car

fuck you

2/17/2010 4:22:15 PM

Well I read the whole series in a week and I'm not old enough to rent a car yet...so I'm okay still.

But honestly the books are good, it's kinda cool getting the greek mythology stuff too....

the movie ugggg it just sucked.

2/17/2010 5:25:02 PM

I was tempted to read it, because of the Greek mythology. Its all the rage at the middle school now. Last year they were all about the damn emo vampire books. Yuck. I did read the City of Ember series from seeing the trailer for the movie and thinking that it sounded a LOT like Fallout for kids. The books were pretty good and the movie was okay. Didn't live up to the books though.

2/17/2010 5:47:20 PM

Why wouldn't you just read Metamorphoses or Edith Hamilton?

2/17/2010 5:51:31 PM

Does anyone else think this sounds like a 60's pop group?

Paul Revere and the Raiders...J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers...Tommy James and the Shondells...Percy Jackson and the Olympians?

2/17/2010 6:05:09 PM

sawahash, what is up with you and teenager obsessions? Hanson, Twilight, now this shit?

2/17/2010 6:20:03 PM

^^ That's actually what I was hoping it was when I clicked the thread.

2/17/2010 6:25:47 PM

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"and I'm not old enough to rent a car yet...so I'm okay still."

not sure why being old enough to rent a car is some kind of cutoff for being too old for a children's book..... but yes, you are old enough to rent a car. they just tack on a fee for being 21-24.

2/17/2010 6:29:34 PM

Because today's young adults are still fucking juveniles, so I had to raise the bar from 18 to 25.

2/17/2010 6:33:16 PM

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"Why wouldn't you just read Metamorphoses or Edith Hamilton?"

Who fucking said I haven't already?

2/17/2010 6:48:35 PM

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"sawahash, what is up with you and teenager obsessions? Hanson, Twilight, now this shit?"

Hanson...yes they are an obsession...but they are far from teenagers

Twilight....not an obsession, yes I liked reading the books and watching the movies, but only for the entertainment of it, not because I think they are great works of American literature or film.

I'll add to the list for you too.

Harry Potter, yes I love Harry Potter...when the first book came out I was 11 years old, the same age as Harry, of course I kept up with the stories and of course I'm going to continue to keep up with the movies and be excited about them because honestly I think they are damn good stories and very entertaining to watch and get into...

Like I said before I know the stuff that I like are easy to make fun of and it's very easy to laugh at me for enjoying those things, but honestly, it's just a damn book and movie and me enjoying these things should in no way harm you. I simply made this thread to inform other people who are thinking about seeing the movie after they read the book that it would probably be a huge waste of time on their part because honestly it wasn't that great of a movie.

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"not sure why being old enough to rent a car is some kind of cutoff for being too old for a children's book..... but yes, you are old enough to rent a car. they just tack on a fee for being 21-24."

and honestly, is there really such a horrible thing in an adult reading these books? I mean they were books that I picked up during my vacation from work over the 4th of July last summer, I read the first one just because it looked and sounded interesting being about Greek Mythology...and it was really interesting and left a build up for the next book that made it too good to not read it. I had the time to read those books and I decided I wanted to know the rest of the story. There is nothing wrong with me reading those books and admiting that I read them and admiting that I enjoyed reading them.
The same goes for the Twilight books.



This is one of those classic cases of someone telling that they enjoyed a certain form of entertainment and others have heart attacks at the thought of someone having a different preference in entertainment as them.

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2/17/2010 7:30:52 PM

I'm not having a heart attack.

I just think you'd find a little more enjoyment in a book that's not written for children.

2/17/2010 8:14:25 PM

And I do find enjoyment in those books too. I mean I don't only stick to those types of books...but when I'm looking for a book that will be a quick read and have a good story then I have no problem picking up one of those books.

I also work with kids, and I mean kids love it more than anything when you know about those stories and books and movies.

2/17/2010 8:18:03 PM

^^Wow, you're a Creative Writing major that thinks people who are obviously not huge fans of literature should read Kafka just for the fun of it? As much as I'd love to get your insight into the CW department at NCSU, that you'd encourage the jump from Paul Jackson and the Charlestons to Kafka makes me second-guess.

And for the record, "adult literature" means absolutely nothing. If you mean things that other "everyday" adults read, John Grisham and Dan Brown and whatever hack is currently on the shelves, then yea, okay.

^Vinylbandit said he supports reading in whatever form it takes, and I'll agree. There is absolutely no shame in reading something purely for the entertainment it gives you--suffice to say, it's not always high literature, but it's reading nevertheless. I have to grit my teeth and say the same for Twilight books too, but that's only out of principle.

2/17/2010 8:48:27 PM

Metamorphoses != The Metamorphosis. A couple of people made reference to reading these books because of mythology ties and I don't understand why you wouldn't read the real thing, meaning Ovid (among other things). I certainly wouldn't suggest that someone who isn't a fan of literature jump to Kafka, particularly because I'm not a big fan of Kafka.

As I said, I'm for reading in whatever form it takes, so I'm not telling anyone to not read these books, or saying that there isn't value to be found in them even for adults. sawahash's point about relating to the kids she works with is also a good one. However, I still think that an adult has much more to gain from a novel like Lolita than from a book like Percy Jackson, which I admittedly have not read.

Please note that I'm not advocating that adults should be reading ultra-serious downers or "mature" fiction like The Road all the time. I used Lolita as an example because it's an excellent dramatic novel that's also hysterically funny.

2/17/2010 8:59:20 PM

^^lol exactly...while this genre of books might not be the most intellectually stimulating books they are still good stories to read and to have dancing around in your imagination....While I enjoy a good lets analyze this one sentence in every way possible to get any possible deep meaning behind it sometimes I just wanna kick back and read about a couple of demigod kids that are trying to save the world.

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2/17/2010 9:01:12 PM

^^Fuck my asshole I should have seen the damn Metapmorphoses on first glance. I wondered where the hell Kafka came from.

But oh god I disagree with you--as much as I love Lolita (god that could be taken badly), I can't even begin to see why that would be better than The Road. Sure, the book can be a bit of a downer, but McCarthy's writing style is so much more down to earth than Nabokov--and I tend to think most people who would otherwise dislike literature wouldn't get the critical elements of Lolita that make it so fantastic--I don't know, either want it's semantics and I agree with you on the initial sentiment of "more meaningful" fiction.

I'm going to make a different thread at some point to get your opinions on the CW track at NCSU.

2/17/2010 9:11:22 PM

I guess I wasn't really thinking about the complexity of Lolita, and more responding to the criticism I normally deal with when I advocate for more serious fiction versus "fun" books, which is that people think I'm saying they should only read books like The Road and see movies like Haggis' Crash and never have a good time.

Which is to say I'm a little touchy about this sort of thing .

2/17/2010 9:15:53 PM

2/17/2010 9:27:26 PM

My 6 year old daughter thought it was awesome. I found it generally unoriginal and mostly corny but clever in small ways.

By any measure it was WAY WAY WAY WAY better than those BS emo vampire movies (and bear in mind that I love vampire movies or even just plain monster movies in general.) The only bright side to those emo vampire movies is the slew of hilarious parodies that they have inspired on youtube.

2/18/2010 12:22:14 AM