when lightning strikes « confessions of a selfaholic

i finished reading percy jackson & the olympians: the lightning thief last night, in time before the movie opens two weeks from now. the book which is the first of the five-part series by rick riordan, is about the 12-year old percy ... also, the events are sometimes too contrived to my own liking. i particularly dislike that chapter when the triumvirate of percy, annabeth and grover goes to las vegas and supposedly stays in a time-warped hotel. this screams fan fiction ...