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Is this series any good?

>> No.10820044

>>10820017
I read it when I was 10 and I still thought it was YA garbage.

>> No.10820051

>>10820044
12 here, but me too. It's like someone rewrote Harry Potter without the bullshit, while adding new slightly-less-insulting (usually, see: the mist) bullshit to take its place because the writer wanted his son to be inserted into this... this... fanfiction of the greeks.

>> No.10820061

>>10820044
Hit post too soon, but I'm not a fan of this series, its sequel series "Heroes Of Olympus" (even though it's better-written and fixes the "Protagonist is another obnoxious urban-fantasy smartass" problem by having the perspective jump between the views of different characters each chapter), or the other sequels it's doing.

I posted this because I wanted to know if anyone else liked or hated it, and why.

>> No.10821133

>>10820017
I read them in middle school and loved them.

>> No.10822390

>>10820017
I think it's going to be mandatory reading if I ever have 8 year olds. The series is actually a decent education on the Greeks despite it's poor prose. They also are long for YA so they can condition inexperienced readers for larger novels. If you're 20+ and not a brain/lit/ there are probably better things to read even in the YA category. Chronicles of Narnia gets so much better as an adult because you actually understand the biblical allusions, assuming you have read the bible.

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>>10820017

>> No.10824136

it's a unique kind of YA imo. it's not "literary" in any way and can lead young people into reading bad books as a result. but as a self-contained thing it's actually pretty great. it is the best way to get kids to understand greek mythology now. and it's pretty fun. i think if i ever have kids i will have them read it

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>its a good introduction to the greeks for kids

>Mill was a notably precocious child. He describes his education in his autobiography. At the age of three he was taught Greek.[11] By the age of eight, he had read Aesop's Fables, Xenophon's Anabasis,[11] and the whole of Herodotus,[11] and was acquainted with Lucian, Diogenes Laërtius, Isocrates and six dialogues of Plato.[11] He had also read a great deal of history in English and had been taught arithmetic, physics and astronomy.