So this might be old news for some of you out there, but I just found the reprint of the first installment of the series, a.k.a. The Lightning Thief (the movie is scheduled for release early next year).. It's an interesting fiction novel, well no wonder they are making it into a movie..
Into the novel, unlike some stories about heroes and magics based on pure fictions, the author combines the current world with the whole Greek mythology in there, so for those of you who ever read or heard about ancient Greek, I'm pretty sure you'll recognize some of them.. Worry not, he still uses English to write the novel, but you'll find some Greek words and phrases along the way ;)..
Now the story itself, the protagonist is a "mentally-ill" boy, named Perseus Jackson.. He was often sent to numerous "special" school for his behaviors, only to realize that he is not a normal boy to begin with, but he know nothing of sort, not until his Pre-algebra teacher Mrs. Dodds suddenly turn into one of The Furies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furies) and tried to kill him.. From there on, he goes on the adventure to find his real father, to revive his mother from the Underworld, and to retrieve Zeus' master bolt who was stolen by the Lightning Thief..
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