Although we focus a lot on European folklore in this community, there are of course mythologies in every ancient culture. Which is why I'm pretty excited about Rick Riordan's new series, which focuses on the Egyptians and starts with his recently released The Red Pyramid

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So, what did people think of the Percy Jackson movie? Without spoiling anything, I will say I didn't think they made any horrible changes. A LOT was simplified, but if you view the movie as a sort of companion to the books, I felt like it worked pretty well ( Read more... )

Wow, I seem to be on a roll with the movie trailer discoveries. This one was especially hard to dig up, since there are about 20 fake trailers on youtube, but I finally found the teaser trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefAnd, yeah, I think that looks pretty sweet. When I first saw the series I figured they couldn't be ( Read more... )