A hard-to-hold sort of reading

Book 46 - The largest book you own

Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes by Rick Riordan (Illustrated by John Rocco)

In its piddly 387 pages, you may be wondering how this could possibly be the largest book I own; as we all know Les Miserable is part of my collection. 

Today, we choose to look beyond height, to the factors of length and width. 

This book is about 2 Les Mis' long by 2 Les Mis' wide. That is, of course, referring to the copy of Les Mis that I own. (Your estimate may differ slightly depending on the size of your copy.)

If you would be so kind as to turn back and read a few of my posts from the past year, you will note that Uncle Rick is a reoccurring author; and will be sticking around. Please don't ruin a good thing.

I can't remember if I've written about the similar book by Uncle Rick, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods. This one is the same thing, only with heroes instead of gods.

In any case, this book is quite spectacular. Though I'm sure there are areas of each heroes story that are rather fictional, I do believe that I now have a good understanding of the Greek heroes lives. 

Many of them were much more interested in pillaging and plundering than anything else, but they were each able to show some hero-ness at some point in their stories. 

For most of the heroes stories, it seemed like if their family hadn't been destroyed, accidentally or otherwise, they really didn't have a standing as a hero. 

More often then not, there was a king whose kingdom needed to be overthrown by a hero. The one and only way for the hero to gain that kingship was to show themselves with a quest. If only showing worthiness was so easy in today's world. I think I could do a decent job questing. 

The stories were, at times, so exciting that I didn't even notice how long I had been perched upon the island stool. Yes, my back was sore the next morning. Yes, it was worth it.

I have to say, I wouldn't recommend reading such a large book all the time; it creates difficulty when trying to  hold the book for a long period of time.

1 down, 4 to go, this is t-bear signing off