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Percy Jackson，哈利波特之后最著名的青少年系列小说。宙斯穿西装，战神骑摩托。。。让古希腊诸神穿越于现代美国大地。
L: My favorite book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians! It is a pentalogy) of fantasy)adventure) Q: 在美国，如果家有7-17岁的孩子，你必定知道Percy Jackson的大名。在青少年中，Harry Potter系列Percy Jackson系列以及Twilight 暮光之城系列恐怕得排上影响力最大的几部。Pentalogy 就是五部曲的意思，词头是Penta- 就代表五，比如Pentagon五角大楼。Fantasy是小說分類中的玄幻奇想類。Lindsay, What makes Percy Jackson Series so unique? L: The book is based on Percy Jackson, a Greek demigod, the son of a **mortal （凡人，有寿命的）**mother and a Greek god. **Demi **means part. Just like his background, the book combines Greek myths （神话）and the modern life of a city boy. The author Rick Riordan does a good job on putting a modern spin （旋转）on the myths. After read this series, we got extremely familiar with the classic gods and goddess, although the story settings are largely based on normal everyday settings. Q: As a hero, Percy must have some special gift, what is it? And what also makes him a normal boy? L：Percy is the son of Poseidon（海神波塞冬）, the God of Ocean. He can get more powerful when he is in the water, and he can heal （治愈）himself in water even when he is injured. This special talent saves him many times in his adventures. In normal life, he is a 11 year old boy with ADHD who is constantly in all sorts of trouble at school. Q:ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, 注意力缺陷和多动症（少年儿童多发症）。作者本人原是一个历史老师，儿子有同样的病，他经常讲希腊神话故事给儿子听，所有的故事都讲完了就开始编排诸神，自己编故事，编到后来，儿子说可以出一本书啊。书写好了先给自己的学生看，学生们都很喜欢，才拿去发表。你看，从一个好父亲到畅销书作家仿佛水到渠成。 L: Not only Percy has both sides of the superpower and a normal school boy, The Greek gods themselves take on modern looks too. Zeus（宙斯）, lord of the sky and thunder, wears a business suit（商务西装）. Poseidon, god of the ocean, wears a Bermuda shirt （夏天穿的一种男士花短袖衬衣）and shorts. Ares, god of the war, rides on a Harley Davidson（哈雷戴维森摩托）motorcycle. Can you imagine these serious gods appearing the same as anyone we meet? These details are all blended perfectly together, the touches of normality, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art（大都会博物馆）, and New York City itself, make the ancient myths refreshing. Q: 这个系列之所以如此成功，必须归功于作者经典翻新的能力。好了，下次我们接着说这部书。