The Red Pyramid - your views and thoughts - SPOILER ALERT!

awesome!! i started reading TRP yesterday, and i'm almost half-way through. its getting really good!!!

SPOILER ALERT::
**the thing im confused about: how can Bast be on Earth as a Goddess when the other gods have hosts?

by tinkerirock Today at 16:42
omg i imagined set really different, and carter different, too. sadie is the same for me, and isis is different, too. Bast is sorta what i imagined.


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  by posiden#1god Today at 15:25this is how i picture set wierd is this all the picture's that are releasted of the people in the book.
  

I saw the quote in the book on Suz. signature, but I couldn't help wondering was Amos referring to The Greek Gods? I know Zeus has ruled it out, but he did say OTHER GODS. SO what do you guys think?

If anyone is interested I found a typo on pg.69 of my version(UK), it's where Amos says to Carter Merry Christmas on the Terrace. The word Christmas is spelled without the i.

Hum ill check my version of my book

Yes, he is referring to Olympus and all the Greek gods, and that Egyptian magicians were smart to stay out of Manhattan.

In chapter 25 Thoth mentions Hermes that the two of them are nothing alike. Meaning that the gods all exist in the same universal world just like Rick in our 3/14/10 interview said they did.

I feel like Rick couldn't help but give the Greek gods some nod in this book.

You are right in the American version P. 69 Amos's quote has Christmas spelled wrong, without the letter I.

oh yea! i thought it was just the eBook reader that i bought it on! okay... koolll.

ooh you have an e book, wow.

Ok, cause I though he said parallel universe.

When Khufu fell fron the mansion i felt so bad for him and Philip!

posiden#1god wrote:When Khufu fell fron the mansion i felt so bad for him and Philip!

I kinda felt bad for the set animal. He got shoved in a lock, so I have this story, once at my school we had this kid who got locked into a locker, and he was crying so bad, so I felt bad for the set animal.(not me, and not someone I know)

(Did you help the kid get out?)

I do too i felt bad Set is a major jerk!

posiden#1god wrote:(Did you help the kid get out?)

I do too i felt bad Set is a major jerk!

I liked the on my mother's starry elbows part.

IM sorry but what?

posiden#1god wrote:IM sorry but what?

When Set is forced to swear on his name, and Ra's, he adds his mother's starry elbows.

oooh.

has anyone thought of an answer for the following question?:

Bast is on Earth as a Godess, but the other Gods have hosts. Why doesn't she? Like she said that Muffin wasn't her host anymore, because she's her whole goddess form. so like isn't that not-pure or something??

Muffin was her host in animal form. She appears as a human for Cater and Sadie 's Sake. Rick said the gods could take on various appearances. But in the river she fights to her last ounce of strength and yet pushed Muffin out of the water to save her host.

I found another Greek reference. You know that Aphophis is actually a Greek name? IT is the name that the Greeks gave to Apep, which is actually the Egyptian name.

give us the page number please.

Folks see college students love Rick too. I hope our college,high school, and middle school students on MN finish the year well.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010


New Books, Author Talks, and Fanfic



Let me begin this post by saying that I never buy new books, and when I do, I buy paperbacks. I'm a poor college student and both space and hardcovers are expensive. So when I shell out twenty-six dollars to get a hardcover copy of Rick Riordan's book signed by him (in person!!), it's kind of a big deal for a lot of reasons. I was just as excited as all the ten year olds I was sharing the theatre with, and they were really excited. I got there a half-hour early (the doors opened an hour early) and sat reading my new book against the background of the musical gymnastics of the Tivoli Theater organist and the excited murmurings of the nearly 800 people who'd come to listen to what Mr. Riordan had to say. ( I also observed that I was probably the only college student in the audience, so I don't know what that says about me... or about my fellow college students, for that matter.)

I'm fortunate enough to live in a heavily suburban area with at least one indie bookstore, Anderson's Bookshop, within reach. They're wonderful people there, and they really love what they do. They also bring A LOT of authors to come and sign books, and I got lucky -- Rick Riordan was one of them. So I paid my money and bought my book and went to go hear him speak. I guessed from his blog that he's a really laid-back, cool kind of guy, and seeing him in person confirmed that for me. (Truth be told, I wouldn't have minded having this guy for a middle school language arts teacher; the teaching profession has lost a special one there.) He basically book-talked his new book, The Red Pyramid, which I thought was funny, since these kids have already both bought it and dragged their parents out on a school night to let them hear the author speak. They're not the ones that need the book 'sold' to them on why it's a good read. But it was good to hear a well-done book talk.

After his prepared remarks, he took a few questions from the audience, most of which I took notes on if I didn't know the answer already. (Ten-year olds ask some really obvious questions sometimes.)

He says he was inspired to write about Ancient Egypt because that was always popular with his students while he was teaching. "Maybe it's the mummies, maybe it's the pyramids -- I don't know exactly why." It takes him about a year to write a whole story, but he's trying to shorten that to six months now that he's writing both the next two books in the Kane Chronicles and the new Camp Half-Blood Series Heroes of Olympus. The title is always the last thing he writes and the he really made my day by reaffirming something I'm going to share with my writing campers at the end of June.

He said that if there was one thing that he'd recommend to new writers it would be to outline everything that's going to happen in the book before you start writing. That way, he explains, you'll never be stuck on where the story will go next. He talked about how he started writing when he was twelve and there are a lot of stories he never finished, but that's because you're just practicing and you're learning how to write.

A real life example of prewriting! Fantastic! I was really excited for that.

Anyway, I've had a post-it note with a question for Riordan all ready and waiting on my desk since I found out he was speaking at Anderson's -- it was a good question, too, I think. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to ask it to the big group because I think there was a little ageism going on with the microphone lady, but I guess that's what I get for being a college student going to a young adult book signing. The question was this:

<BLOCKQUOTE>Mr. Riordan, on your blog you've made several posts about YouTube videos of tapes of Carter and Sadie Kane that fans have made themselves from the audio clip posted on your website and you say that 'it all must mean something.' I was wondering if you could expand on what you meant by that and what you think of other fan-produced works like fanart and fanfiction based on your work?</BLOCKQUOTE>

Needless to say, I didn't have time to ask all of this in the signing line, so I clipped it down to a very simplistic version of my original question.

Scene.

Me: Mr. Riordan, I have a question. What do you think of fanfiction? [had to add the 'question' marker since I obviously looked old enough not to be the one getting the book signed for myself]

RR: *slightly stressed face, appropriate for a man who's had to sign several hundred books in the space of two hours* Well, you know I can't read any of it, for reasons of copyright and all that, but I don't...I mean...I... I don't like it. It's like someone else trying on your clothes. *gestures with hands as if indicating he is trying to get something slimy and disgusting off them.*

Me: Trying on your clothes. That's a good one. Thanks! *moves along in line and writes this down in notebook*

End Scene.

And it was a good one. In fact, it was a great metaphor. Writing fanfiction and using someone else's characters is exactly like trying on someone else's clothes. I don't think he'd ever gotten that question before (His lack of an immediate answer would seem to suggest this) and I'm glad I asked it for that reason. There are a dozen better ways I might have asked it, whether he was impressed or flattered that children love his characters so much that they want to write adventures of their own for him, but I didn't, and I think that means I got an honest answer.

Does this mean I'm going to take down my PJO fic because I have it from the author himself that he disapproves? Nope. The way I figure, my one lonely PJO fic uses a character Riordan himself used for about a paragraph, and my story uses characters exclusive to PJO for a small fraction of the story. I think it's a fair exchange, more like borrowing a pair of socks from a friend after yours were soaked through than stealing a favorite t-shirt. You return the socks when you're done and thank him for the gesture.

I had a lot of time on the drive home to extend my metaphor, and this is what I came up with.

If writing fanfiction is like trying on someone else's clothes, then isn't writing fanfiction about a dead author's works something like second-hand clothes shopping?

Think about it. Jane Austen's dresses are having the ride of their life right now if that's the case.

Posidonsdaughter wrote:give us the page number please.

There is none, everytime Aphophis is mentioned he is mentioned as either a chaos creature or Aphophis. But, when I searched him out, it came out as Apep. I got it from this link here. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/apep.htm

I wonder where he got the info, cause the NYT is still showing the books from the week ending May.1 to be published on May.16.


As of May. 17/2010 The NYT is showing TRP as its top Children's book, and PJO as its top series.

Ditto I checked last night after posting it, very strange.