/lit/ - Literature

>>15641288
>>15641311
These posts are correct. Harry Potter is the most popular ya novel series because it’s the first one that really kicked off the trend
>inb4 someone brings up some other ya novels with movies in the 80s or 90s that no one here has heard of

Hunger Games first movie at least was good which is what made a lot of people read the series like me. Percy Jackson movies were awful though they had nothing to do with the plot.

>>15641576
I don’t think criticisms that it’s a ripoff of Harry Potter is correct. Besides at the broadest view of the overall series arc ok sure. But that’s just basic fucking story structure and Riordan was able to fit it in well with Greek mythology
>there was a first war that happened before the series started that defeated the big baddie,
>hero fights minions of big baddie that are trying to bring back big baddie
>prophecy that hero will defeat big baddie
>eventually big baddie returns at end of book (though in HP this was the 5/8th book while in PJ it was 4/5th)
>then there’s a 2nd war and at the end hero beats big baddie (though imo PJ did this in a much more intelligent way with prophecy really being about a different hero and Percy’s decision being about whether to trust the other hero or not)
All of this is pretty basic story structure, and in fact PJ’s is a bit more intelligently done.

None of the individual book stories resemble themselves at all. None of the characters resemble themselves at all. Percy Jackson and Harry Potter are characteriscally completely different besides being MCs.

>>15641302
Depends on the book. Some of the books Luke was pretty good some of them he was shit. Kronos was completely basic though that’s what he was like in Greek mythology. I thought Atlas was cool for the one book he was in but none of the other titans were done that well admittedly.

Olympians were assholes in Greek Mythology, if anything they should’ve made Poseidon more of a dick. It was central to Greek myths and it’d be dumb to change that.

>>15641370
>>15641663
Based

What are your rankings?
>Titans Curse
>The Last Olympian
>Battle of the Labyrinth
>Lightning Thief
>Sea of Monsters


If I set up a white nationalist Hellenic Republic in the middle of Wyoming called Camp Halfblood where we worship the Hellenic gods, train like Spartans, read the Greeks, study and speak Ancient Greek, and sometimes do a rape of the Sabines, how many of you would want to join?