About this title: In this second installment in the series Percy, Poseidon's 13-year-old demigod son, is desperate to rescue his friend and retrieve the healing Golden Fleece--the only protection for the children in Camp Half-Blood. Adventure follows chaotic adventure as Percy once again battles mythical monsters in modern-day settings.
Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Miramax
Date Published: 4/1/2007
ISBN-13:9781423103349ISBN:1423103343
Description: New. Paperback. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scholastic Book Services, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780439027021ISBN:0439027020
Description: Very Good. 279 Pages. Measures: 5-1/4" x 7-3/4" Clean, tight copy with no writing or markings. The spine is not creased. Not an Ex-Library book. Colorfully illustrated cover. Includes 20 Chapters and Literature Circle Questions. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Date Published: 1/1/2007
ISBN-13:9780545003407ISBN:0545003407
Description: New. Paperback. Enjoyable reading copy for your personal pleasure. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Date Published: 2007-01-01
ISBN-13:9780545003407ISBN:0545003407
Description: New. Paperback. Enjoyable reading copy for your personal pleasure. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Miramax Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781423103349ISBN:1423103343
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 279 p. Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Paperback), 2. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Miramax Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781423103349ISBN:1423103343
Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 279 p. Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Paperback), 2. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Miramax
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781423103349ISBN:1423103343
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Miramax
Date Published: 2007-04-01
ISBN-13:9781423103349ISBN:1423103343
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781423103349. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Miramax Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780786856862ISBN:0786856866
Description: New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 279 p. Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Hardcover), 2. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Miramax
Date Published: 2006-04-01
ISBN-13:9780786856862ISBN:0786856866
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780786856862. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Miramax
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780786856862ISBN:0786856866
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: Audio Book edition
Binding: Audiobook (CD)
Publisher: Listening Library
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780739335871ISBN:0739335871
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. In plastic hardshell case. Discs good, storage case graphic insert has edgewear and a tear. Unabridged; Includes ALL 7 discs; narrated by Jesse Berns; 7 hrs 56 min.; Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.; read more
Edition: Literature Circle
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Date Published: 1/1/2007
ISBN-13:9780545003407ISBN:0545003407
Description: Fine. 0545003407 2007 Scholastic Inc. Signed by author Rick Riordan on the title page. Brand New. This softcover copy is in excellent condition. The text is unmarked/unread and the binding is sturdy. 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed. We process and ship orders daily. The sale of this item benefits the Newton Public Library. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Date Published: 2006-12-06
ISBN-13:9780786290741ISBN:0786290749
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780786290741. read more
"My imagination kept me reading this book. I was not able to predict the ending till the beginning of the last chapter. I would recommend this book to Harry Potter lovers because this book is just like it. My favorite character was the main character Percy because you get to know what he is thinking during the book. My least favorite character was the evil doer Luke because he is trying to bring down mount. Olympus. My favorite part of the book is when two of the main characters get stuck on Calypsos' Island. The first book to the series is coming to theaters in February 12. I would probably want the same guy who is playing Percy, but I would want Kirsten storms playing annabeth chase or maybe Emma Watson, Keri Russell playing Percy's mom and Gerard Butler to play Poseidon. This book made me feel anticipation to keep turning the page. My favorite line from the book is "You idiot you broke my spear!" by claries. Rick Riordan wrote this book for his kids and his students so they would understand more about Greek mythology."
"After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson is finding his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any normal friends. But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders that protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters, the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millennia. Only today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new name: The Bermuda Triangle.Together with his friends, Percy must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family, one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or simply a cruel joke."
"After reading book two of this series, my opinion is overall unchanged. Though the plot is advancing with a few surprises and, to its credit, an intriguing twist ending, the series is still very wonky in its construction. Here is a passage that best illustrates my disappointment with Riordan's world:
"Charybdis was an orthodontist's nightmare. She was nothing but a huge black maw with bad teeth alignment and a serious overbite, and she'd done nothing for centuries but eat without brushing after meals." (160)
Just when you're introduced to a fearsome creature, it is described in goofy terms and given a plaid suit (the latter happens quite literally to a bumbling Cyclops). That, plus other actual descriptions such as "evil-looking", "casual-like" and "wicked cool" make the novel progress to the sound of groans. And why the hell does every character wear a t-shirt with a stupid slogan on it?
Another issue I take with this series is that -Spoilers- Percy never seems to fail at absolutely anything that he does. Every task he is given is executed to perfection, no one ever gets hurt and if they do, they are magically healed afterward. Perilous situations have already lost their peril because you don't believe that he will fail, which illustrates the strange irony that heroics don't lie in a constant string of effortless trophies. -End of Spoilers-
This novel falls short of the dreaded 1-star rating because there's still a lot of true, dark material brooding underneath Percy's eyeroll-inducing adventures. I just worry that when the true villain reveals himself, he'll look like a loan shark or a DMV employee or a theme park ticket-taker with long, fake nails who would rather talk on the phone than rip your ticket stub.
That's the sad paradigm to which Greek myths have been reduced in this series."
"So I finished the second Percy Jackson book, The Sea of Monsters. I have to say, I enjoyed it more than the first. It still has some obvious Harry Potter parallels (Gray Sisters Taxi/Knight Bus, Chariot Racing/Quidditch, The "mentor" being forced to leave as to be replaced by somebody who goes out of his/her way to torture and humiliate the hero and others). But unlike the previous book, this one has very few HP connections, so it really isn't distracting.
Instead, this book pulls a lot from The Odyssey, which is ironic considering I recently found out that I'm gonna be teaching that this year. Anyway, the book starts off as Percy finally having lasted nearly a full year at a single school (which is kind of an HP parallel, too... instead of DADA teachers not lasting a year, Percy can't stay in a school for more than a year). He's also befriended Tyson, a rather large and unpopular guy, who was brought in as an educating the homeless project of some sort. He's a bit slow, though nice and misunderstood, unlike the rest of his kind... but I'm getting ahead of myself. In other words, he's like a mentally handicapped version of Hagrid (I know Tyson is supposed to be just a "little kid," but he seemed more "special" to me, if you know what I mean). Anywho, Annabeth shows up and drags Percy (and Tyson by extension) to Camp Half-Blood, where Thalia's tree-o-protection has been poisoned and monsters are attacking. Not long after, Percy realizes he must save Grover, who has been captured by Polyphemus, the cyclops defeated by Odysseus, and who is also guarding the Golden Fleece. And, imagine that, they also realize that the Golden Fleece could be the only thing to heal Thalia-Tree and save the camp. So off on adventure they go... even if they were told not to.
I really didn't have any major issues with this one. It strongly followed the same outline as The Odyssey, but that didn't bother me. Some of the previous characters get bigger roles, such as Clarisse, who I'm actually enjoying as a character (she's kinda like Draco-lite: she doesn't come off as completely threatening, and is at times likable). It introduces some fun new characters, too. Tyson is a great character, mostly due to how innocent he is (I loved the whole "Rainbow the Hippocampus" bit). I also really liked the god Hermes, introduced in this book. His bits, though there are only two, are really funny.
And that's another thing. This book had more humor than the previous. Well, I mean that the humor didn't seem as forced as the first, or was at least witty enough for me to appreciate. But there was an overall good mix of humor and action.
This book also wasn't nearly as predictable as the first, despite following the Odyssey outline. I knew how it was going to end merely because I had it accidentally spoiled for me beforehand (some stupid person on imdb brought it up in a topic for the first movie). Though, and you'll know what I'm talking about if you've read the book, I liked the reasoning behind why the ending bit happened. I didn't see that coming, honestly. And although the baddie is ripping off Voldemort more by the second, he's actually beginning to become more threatening by showing his cunning and deceitful ways.
If there was anything about the ending that I didn't like, it was the end of the penultimate chapter (at the end of the chariot race). It was so cheesy. Like, the ending of the movie version of Chamber of Secrets cheesy (which is an ironic comparison as I've already made the Hagrid/Tyson comparison). It just felt... forced and fake and incredibly cheesy. But maybe that's just me.
Maybe I can get through the next three books without spoilers or easy predictability. I've been told that, like Harry Potter, these books do get darker and more intricate as the go, which makes me happy. If it keeps going on this path, the next few books will be great and fun. Though the series thus far has been fun already. And this second installment was no different. If you enjoyed the first one, you'll really enjoy the second."
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
rating
